This project, currently in its preliminary stage, explores how religious apocalyptic frameworks are being reimagined and secularized within contemporary discourses surrounding AI, especially artificial generative intelligence (AGI), the technological singularity, and AI-driven “end times.” I am interested in how longstanding theological ideas about revelation, salvation, and catastrophe resurface in ostensibly secular conversations about technological futures.

During my undergraduate studies, coursework in religion shaped the way I began to think about how emerging technologies might be interpreted and adopted differently based on religious views. In the context of overwhelmingly fearful AI narratives, this project asks whether these anxieties reflect a continuation of religious apocalyptic thinking rather than a break from it, and how digital eschatology shapes public imagination, ethical debates, and technological governance.

What’s Innovative / Interesting

• This project connects religious studies with contemporary AI and technology discourse, an area that remains underexplored. Furthermore, it bridges theology, sociology, and media studies to interrogate moral panic around AI

• It frames AI “doomsday” narratives as secularized forms of apocalyptic theology