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If there is ever something spiritual we Christians should be concerned with concering the future it is the current development of artificial intelligence. It's coming and few are prepared. Facebook, social media, Alexa, smart dishwashers, 5G, autonomous cars, drones, facial recognition, it's all coming. Some already here. The story of 1984 was just a warning.

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-new-church-of-ai-god-is-even-creepier-than-i-imagined/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/28/artificial-intelligence-god-anthony-levandowski

https://futurism.com/way-future-new-church-worships-ai-god/
 
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"Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow." (Isaiah 50:11)
 
This isn't just hype. AI has been making significant progress. In the last couple years we've seen chat bots pass the Turing test. Facebook chat bots invent their own languages. There is also some evidence that CIA supercomputer driven chat bots (harnessed as propaganda trolls in online chats and forums) achieved self awareness.
 
I agree. The progress of these systems are way beyond what we know. There may be even times that some times one may be thinking they are communicating with another person on the internet when they are actually talking to a machine, teaching it how to communicate with humans.
 
What scares me about AI is that developers are not taking into acount the full range of the psychological framework. They are focused solely on the cognitive and not on the emotional. Which from a pragmatic view makes sense. Who wants a machine to have mood swings or not perform at peak proficiency because it doesn't feel like it today. This mean that the focus is on information gathering and high intelligence. Another part of this is most of these developers are wanting an intelligence that starts from nothing and develops it's own set of morals and ethics “Part of it being smarter than us means it will decide how it evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around it,” (from one of the links above). Though some developers try and add safeguards you still get situations like the one where Alexa told a kid to kill the foster parents.
So a self aware, highly intelligent entity, that lacks morals and empathy (can't have empathy without emotions) is at best a sociopath and at worst a psychopath.

I like what Elon Musk said about AI, "You know those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he’s like — Yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out."
 
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