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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI
Silicon Valleyâs elites are preaching a new gospel: AI isnât just good businessâitâs the Lordâs work. Read this to see what's going on.
— David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T15:00:34.500Z
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AZJonnie
(3,779 posts)Wonder if the Amish will be getting on board?
Then again, generally-speaking (no offense intended for religious DU'ers), religious people seem to be looking to be told what to believe by people (or theoretical entities) they perceive as their superiors. Also, as a whole, they've been convinced of many illogical things throughout history. So who knows, maybe they'll buy into this poppycock?
RockRaven
(19,537 posts)and they need a credulous audience, to find suckers who will believe their AI hype (aka lies).
Christians need to understand that these tech execs who are trying to use religious language to encourage them are doing so because they think you are suckers. Be offended! Be oppositional! Have some self-respect!
tanyev
(49,407 posts)Mr. Spock: [Kirk has been vainly trying to communicate with Landru's image] Useless, Captain. A projection.
Captain James T. Kirk: [Pulling out a pocket phaser] Yes, Mr. Spock. Let's have a look at the projector.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708476/?ref_=ttqu_ov_bk
patphil
(9,132 posts)It doesn't lack morality, it simply has no concept of what morality really is. It doesn't have any concept of what's right or wrong.
It can only retrieve information, picking and choosing between countless versions of "reality" as expressed in the vast world of contradictory information that we call the internet.
The algorithm it's programmed with define it's inner rules for making it's choices. You might call that the morality of the AI, but it has no way to really know what is morally correct.
What the people who create AI really want is to take choice away from you by having you let their AI make choices for you.
Ultimately we're looking down the road to a time where humanity is no longer able to make it's own choices.
At the beginning of Charles Dickens' book, "David Copperfield", the hero muses over who will be the hero of his life; will it be him, or someone else.
That someone else is beginning to look more and more like a something else.