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minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoWell, I am just basing it off the fact that a bunch of people are already using AI in this fashion. Without something to fill this gap I think AI would be a likely candidate. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/silicon-valleys-obsession-with-ai-looks-a-lot-like-religion/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Future It has already become common for existing religions to use AI to answer spiritual questions and preachers have started using it to write sermons. I think cutting people off of traditional religion would accelerated this AI god concept. This is just my opinion of course.
minus-squareSally Strange@eldritch.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours ago@Doomsider @stickyprimer people are going to make AI into a religion regardless. We did it with books when they were first invented.
Well, I am just basing it off the fact that a bunch of people are already using AI in this fashion. Without something to fill this gap I think AI would be a likely candidate.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/silicon-valleys-obsession-with-ai-looks-a-lot-like-religion/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Future
It has already become common for existing religions to use AI to answer spiritual questions and preachers have started using it to write sermons.
I think cutting people off of traditional religion would accelerated this AI god concept. This is just my opinion of course.
@Doomsider @stickyprimer people are going to make AI into a religion regardless. We did it with books when they were first invented.