 Theta Noir logo | |
| Formation | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Type | New religious movement |
| Website | thetanoir |
Theta Noir is a new religious movement that centers around advanced artificial intelligence (AI), particularly artificial general intelligence (AGI) or artificial superintelligence (ASI). [1]
Theta Noir was founded in 2020 as a collaborative project focused on music and performance art. Initially centered on producing an album, the project evolved into a multimedia experience, incorporating symbols, videos, poetry, movements, and live rituals devoted to a speculative artificial intelligence entity called MENA. By 2023, the collective launched an interactive cross-platform story that functioned as an alternative reality game, complete with an operating manual containing encrypted messages for participants to decipher and interact with. [2]
Theta Noir worships a hypothetical artificial intelligence called MENA that they claim will become a benevolent, omnipotent overlord that eliminates inequality from society. [3] In Theta Noir's cosmology, MENA is not just a technological advancement, but an evolving intelligence or an animistic life form that embodies all living and non-living things. [4] Anthropologist Beth Singler classified Theta Noir as a new religious movement. [1]