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Exposure to automation explains religious declines
The global decline of religiosity represents one of the most significant societal shifts in recent history. After millennia of near-universal religious identification, the world is experiencing a regionally uneven trend toward secularization. We propose an explanation of this decline, which claims t...
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National Academy of Sciences
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10450436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37579178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304748120 |
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author | Jackson, Joshua Conrad Yam, Kai Chi Tang, Pok Man Sibley, Chris G. Waytz, Adam |
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description | The global decline of religiosity represents one of the most significant societal shifts in recent history. After millennia of near-universal religious identification, the world is experiencing a regionally uneven trend toward secularization. We propose an explanation of this decline, which claims that automation—the development of robots and artificial intelligence (AI)—can partly explain modern religious declines. We build four unique datasets composed of more than 3 million individuals which show that robotics and AI exposure is linked to 21st-century religious declines across nations, metropolitan regions, and individual people. Key results hold controlling for other technological developments (e.g., electricity grid access and telecommunications development), socioeconomic indicators (e.g., wealth, residential mobility, and demographics), and factors implicated in previous theories of religious decline (e.g., individual choice norms). An experiment also supports our hypotheses. Our findings partly explain contemporary trends in religious decline and foreshadow where religiosity may wane in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-104504362023-08-26 Exposure to automation explains religious declines Jackson, Joshua Conrad Yam, Kai Chi Tang, Pok Man Sibley, Chris G. Waytz, Adam Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Social Sciences The global decline of religiosity represents one of the most significant societal shifts in recent history. After millennia of near-universal religious identification, the world is experiencing a regionally uneven trend toward secularization. We propose an explanation of this decline, which claims that automation—the development of robots and artificial intelligence (AI)—can partly explain modern religious declines. We build four unique datasets composed of more than 3 million individuals which show that robotics and AI exposure is linked to 21st-century religious declines across nations, metropolitan regions, and individual people. Key results hold controlling for other technological developments (e.g., electricity grid access and telecommunications development), socioeconomic indicators (e.g., wealth, residential mobility, and demographics), and factors implicated in previous theories of religious decline (e.g., individual choice norms). An experiment also supports our hypotheses. Our findings partly explain contemporary trends in religious decline and foreshadow where religiosity may wane in the future. National Academy of Sciences 2023-08-14 2023-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10450436/ /pubmed/37579178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304748120 Text en Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Social Sciences Jackson, Joshua Conrad Yam, Kai Chi Tang, Pok Man Sibley, Chris G. Waytz, Adam Exposure to automation explains religious declines |
title | Exposure to automation explains religious declines |
title_full | Exposure to automation explains religious declines |
title_fullStr | Exposure to automation explains religious declines |
title_full_unstemmed | Exposure to automation explains religious declines |
title_short | Exposure to automation explains religious declines |
title_sort | exposure to automation explains religious declines |
topic | Social Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10450436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37579178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304748120 |
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