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applegrove

(132,559 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 02:51 PM 17 hrs ago

Tech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI

Silicon Valley’s elites are preaching a new gospel: AI isn’t just good business—it’s the Lord’s work. Read this to see what's going on.

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David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T15:00:34.500Z
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Tech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI (Original Post) applegrove 17 hrs ago OP
Well, that's an ambitious goal AZJonnie 17 hrs ago #1
Well, they have identified a group of people that they think are credulous RockRaven 17 hrs ago #2
OG Star Trek, The Return of the Archons tanyev 17 hrs ago #3
An AI is a soulless thing. It has no concept of anything outside of what it's programmed to do. patphil 17 hrs ago #4
That guy was already batshit crazy. RandySF 16 hrs ago #5

AZJonnie

(3,779 posts)
1. Well, that's an ambitious goal
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:00 PM
17 hrs ago

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)
2. Well, they have identified a group of people that they think are credulous
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:06 PM
17 hrs ago

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)
3. OG Star Trek, The Return of the Archons
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:14 PM
17 hrs ago
Landru: You have come to a world without hate, without fear, without conflict, no war, no disease, no crime. None of the ancient evils. Landru seeks tranquility, peace for all, the universal good.

The Enterprise travels to Beta III to learn the fate of the U.S.S. Archon, gone missing a century earlier. One member of the landing party disappears, and one returns in a strangely blissful state. Kirk beams down with another landing party; amidst the chaos of "Festival" their hosts asks if they are "Archons." To learn more, Kirk must convince Betan citizens to disobey Landru, the man who has ruled them for 6,000 years - or find those who already resist. But with the Lawgivers everywhere, that task is going to be difficult...


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)
4. An AI is a soulless thing. It has no concept of anything outside of what it's programmed to do.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:20 PM
17 hrs ago

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.

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