Silicon Valley Found AI and Started Looking for God — Tech Workers Join Faith Communities as AI Existential Concerns Drive Religious Engagement

The SF Standard reports AI existential anxiety is driving renewed religious engagement among Silicon Valley tech workers, with new faith communities emerging including The Hamilton Society (600+ members), Centerpoint Spaces (Christian coworking), and the 4AI Cohort theology-and-AI ethics course. Father Joseph Illo directly ties the trend to AI uncertainty: 'Any time there's a fear, people tend to come back to religion.' Anthropic hosted a two-day summit with theologians and academics to discuss 'God and AI,' while participants describe the former social taboo around open religiosity in tech as having mostly faded among the current generation of AI workers.