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.
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