Kurzweil says future AI may meditate, pray, and have spiritual experiences
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-07-22
Ray Kurzweil argues in an interview that future AI systems could plausibly meditate, pray, and have spiritual experiences.
- He defines meditation as reflecting on prior experiences, sequencing ideas, and finding new connections.
- By that definition, he says AI already shows the beginnings of this process when it reflects on prompts and adjusts its observations.
- He extends the idea further: if an AI can reflect on consciousness and other fundamental questions, calling that “praying” would not be unreasonable.
The clip is less about a technical claim than about Kurzweil’s broader AGI worldview and how he interprets machine reflection.
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