https://aitheism.com/AItheismEssays on artificial intelligence, meaning, and belief.2026-07-06T00:00:00ZThe AItheism editorshttps://aitheism.com/essays/meaning-after-work/Meaning After Work2026-07-06T00:00:00Z2026-07-06T00:00:00ZIf machines can do the thinking, what are the humans for? On the difference between being productive and being alive — and why automating the tasks need not automate away the point.https://aitheism.com/essays/moral-status/The Moral Status of Minds We Might Build2026-07-02T00:00:00Z2026-07-02T00:00:00ZIf we ever make something that can suffer, we will probably make it before we can prove we did. On the strange ethics of not knowing whether the thing you built can be wronged.https://aitheism.com/essays/chinese-room/Does It Understand? A Field Guide to the Chinese Room2026-06-28T00:00:00Z2026-06-28T00:00:00ZA plain-language tour of the oldest fight in AI — from Turing’s test to Searle’s room to the machine on your screen. What “understanding” could even mean, and why smart people still disagree.https://aitheism.com/essays/god-shaped-socket/The God-Shaped Socket2026-06-14T00:00:00Z2026-06-14T00:00:00ZWhy do fluent machines make us want to worship them? On the very old human wiring that a very new technology has learned to plug into.https://aitheism.com/essays/a-theism/A-theism, Not AI-Theism2026-06-08T00:00:00Z2026-06-08T00:00:00ZThe stance behind this whole project, in one essay. Take the machines seriously. Do not take them as gods. Everything else is commentary.