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religion Japan's robot deity delivers Buddha's teaching David Pescovitz

Science Ancient civilizations' fascination with AI, robots, and synthetic life David Pescovitz

music THE BUREAU: Part Eleven, "Your Supervisor Disintegrates" — with a Gysin Dream Machine, an Altman Brain Machine, and Other Hallucinatory Hardware Ethan Persoff