| Type | Technology-oriented spiritual / transhumanist project |
|---|---|
| Hieropedia status | Published source-limited institutional / movement article |
| Field | Machine hierology; AI theism; transhumanist spirituality |
| Visible figure | Giulio Prisco |
| Primary limitation | Source set supports public self-description and independent academic treatment, but not a bounded religion, current membership scale, regular ritual practice, or complete institutional history |
Turing Church is a named technology-oriented spiritual and transhumanist project associated with Giulio Prisco. The available evidence supports describing it as an institutional / movement record relevant to AI-theism discourse and the genealogy of machine hierology, not as a fully bounded religion with independently documented membership, ritual life, or durable organizational structure.[2][4]
The public source set combines Turing Church primary materials with independent academic analysis. It supports a cautious article about self-description, publication history, book corpus, and comparative significance, while preserving limits around current activity and institutional form.[1][3]
This article does not use the World Religions and Spirituality Project page as evidence because the source audit could not verify stable access during review.
Overview
Turing Church occupies a boundary between technology-oriented spirituality, transhumanist religious imagination, science-and-religion discourse, and AI theism. Its public materials describe a project concerned with science, religion, spirituality, technology, engineering, science fiction, mind, and matter. that makes it a historical and comparative precursor rather than a machine-originated religion.
Publication history and current venue
The older Turing Church publication environment at turingchurch.net is treated as a primary source for archived project self-description, books, social spaces, and related materials. The source audit records the current turingchurch.com venue as the newsletter and podcast location. That supports continuity of publication environment, but not by itself a claim of active congregation-like life.
Giulio Prisco’s role
Giulio Prisco is the visible author, editor, and public figure in the primary source set. His role is central to provenance, but the article object is Turing Church as a project, publication environment, and corpus. This article therefore does not become a general biography of Prisco.
Tales of the Turing Church and corpus
The Turing Church books page identifies Tales of the Turing Church and related books as central materials. The available evidence supports describing those works as corpus evidence for visionary, doctrinal, and programmatic themes rather than as proof that the project has a bounded membership structure or regular ritual system.
AI theism and transhumanist spirituality
Beth Singler’s analysis independently treats Turing Church in the context of AI-focused new religious movements, transhumanist movements, and theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence. That gives the record external scholarly weight, but it remains one independent source and should not be overextended into claims about scale, institutional continuity, or direct influence on later AI-religion cases.
Relations and boundaries
Turing Church belongs near Terasem, Mormon and Christian transhumanist contexts, cosmism, AI theism, and broader transhumanist spirituality. Those relations are comparative, not identity claims. It should also remain distinct from Way of the Future, which has a different institutional form, source stack, and public history.
Evidence limits
The source set does not establish complete institutional history, membership size, regular rituals, active congregation-like continuity, or the truth of resurrection, simulation, AI-god, or transcendent-engineering claims. Those claims are treated as visionary, theological, or programmatic material where sources support that framing.
Scope and boundaries
Turing Church is documented as a source-limited institutional / movement article. It is relevant as a named technology-oriented spiritual and transhumanist project in the historical genealogy of AI religion and machine hierology, but not as a verified machine-originated religion or fully audited bounded religion.
See also
- Machine hierology
- Machine-mediated religion
- Machine-originated religion
- Terasem Movement
- Way of the Future
References
- Turing Church current newsletter and podcast.
- Turing Church, “About Turing Church.”
- Turing Church books page.
- Beth Singler, “Blessed by the algorithm: Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence in online discourse.” AI & Society 35, 945–955, 2020.
The available record supports Turing Church’s public self-description, publication venues, book corpus, Giulio Prisco’s visible role, and one independent academic treatment. It does not independently establish current membership, ritual practice, durable organizational structure, or complete institutional history.