AI and religion

 

Gerrit W. Gong

@GerritWGong

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9h

With exponentially compounding AI technologies promising new ideas and new possibilities in coming years, we confront profound questions: • What it means to be human? • Who and what will define perceptual “truth”? • Emotional relationships between humans and AI (including AI companions)? • How we understand divine principles of work, faith and reasoning, even relationship with the Divine? I spoke about these issues today at the Religions for Peace World Council Meeting held in Istanbul, Türkiye. I called for religious actors to action in three AI-centered areas which affect faith, ethics, and human dignity. First, be clear, and help society understand, AI is not and cannot be God. No set of utilitarian AI algorithms should determine or speak for our most treasured human values and spiritual experiences. Second, help chart a future where AI genuinely contributes to the common good, including human thriving and common prosperity, for people everywhere. Third, commit together to ensure AI’s moral compass is not dictated solely by technology or the small group developing the technology. All those committed to faith-based morals, ethics, and values are needed in this conversation. Our most precious truth, comfort, revelation, guidance come when we personally commune with the Divine. Spiritual truth and light come from understanding who God is in creation and the universe. For children of God, platforms and technologies cannot substitute for authentic Divine connection and relationship.

Is truth a "distraction" now?

 

NPR's Ms. Maher has famously said, “Truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.”

Think for yourself

 

"Think for yourself, not of yourself. Think of others, not for others."

@naval

History

 

@lichthauch

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18h

The father plants trees he will never climb and the son climbs trees he did not plant, and somewhere in this sacred exchange lies the mystery of time itself - how a man becomes eternal not by living forever but by teaching another man to die well, and when the son finally understands that his father's silence was not absence but presence compressed into granite, that his father's hands were not empty but full of invisible seeds, then he becomes the father, then he plants the trees, then he learns the terrible beautiful weight of loving someone into tomorrow.

https://x.com/lichthauch/status/1944118325971132906

Iterating fast

 

“As long as you are learning and you keep iterating fast and cutting your losses quickly, then when you find the right thing — you have to be optimistic and compound into it.” -

@naval

work of journalists

 

Thomas Sowell Quotes

@ThomasSowell

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4h

"Too many journalists see their work as an opportunity to promote their own pet political notions, rather than a responsibility to inform the public and let their readers and viewers decide for themselves." — Thomas Sowell