J. Chase Davis

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The Machine Has No Body

C.R. Wiley on the golem we built and why the thing it can't counterfeit is the thing that saves us.

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Chase Davis
Sep 29, 2026
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C.R. Wiley has a new book out from Canon Press called Manmade: Saint Anthony’s Guide to Surviving the AI Apocalypse. His thesis is important enough that he believes he will lose friends over it.

For many of us, the year 2020 was something of a revelation. Many things were revealed. It was apocalyptic in that sense. And Wiley believes we are seeing anoth…

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