Machine Pharaohs: When Civilization Bows Before Its Own Image - Hardcover

Yohannes, Bahta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1067828818 ISBN 13: 9781067828813

Verlag: Anchor & Tide Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Every Pharaoh demanded obedience. The machine asks for something more dangerous: trust.

What happens when humanity creates something powerful enough to replace not only our labor, but our sense of purpose?

Human beings have always needed something greater than themselves. For centuries, that need was answered by faith, family, and community. Today, a machine is raising its hand — and billions are already listening.

In Machine Pharaohs, Bahta Yohannes argues that artificial intelligence is not merely a technological revolution. It is a civilizational and spiritual turning point.

Blending sharp economic insight, political analysis, and profound theological reflection, this book explores the three cages AI is constructing around modern life: the economic cage (the end of work as we know it), the political cage (surveillance, control, and the death of privacy), and the existential cage (the loss of meaning, dignity, and what it means to be human).

Drawing on the biblical themes of imago Dei (image bearers), the Tower of Babel and idolatry, Yohannes asks the questions most AI books avoid:

• Can machines take our purpose?
• What happens to the soul in a world of total automation?
• Are we building new pharaohs — and will we bow before them?

As machines increasingly mediate reality, humanity approaches an ancient question with renewed urgency:

What are human beings for?

Woven throughout the book is a haunting allegory of five animals — the Ox, the Raven, the Lion, the Hummingbird, and the Tortoise — whose struggle mirrors our own search for freedom, memory, purpose, and truth in a world increasingly governed by machines that do not know we exist.

Machine Pharaohs is not a book about technology.
It is a book about worship.
It is not a book about artificial intelligence.
It is a book about what it means to remain human.
And the ancient prophetic tradition that outlasted every Pharaoh has not gone silent.

“The cage is voluntary. The key is remembering you have hands.”

Perfect for readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Shoshana Zuboff, and John C. Lennox — Machine Pharaohs offers a clear, courageous Christian and theological response to the biggest questions of the AI age: human dignity, meaning, surveillance, and the future of work.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Anchor & Tide Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1067828818
• ISBN 13: 9781067828813
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
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