Like it or not, we are nearing the age of humans creating autonomous, self-aware super intelligences.
Those worries and benefits have not escaped religious.
Some faith-bound Americans want to see to it any superintelligence we create knows about God.
In the U.S. Congress, 92 percent of ourhighest politiciansbelong to a Christian faith.
Its redemption to all of creation, even AI, he said.
The metaphysical questions surrounding faith and AI are like tumbling down Alices rabbit hole.
Does AI have a soul?
Imago Dei is Latin for the Christian concept that humans were created in the image of God.
Getting even deeper into this theoretical debate is the question of whether strong AI would even accept our religion.
Its only fair to let AI have access to the teachings of all the worlds religions.
Then they can choose what they want to believe, said Prisco.
The idea of teaching anything to an intelligence that could rather quickly be far smarter than humans is contradictory.
Another possibility is that AI will teach us new things about spirituality that we never considered or understood.
Whatever happens, the creation of AI will likely spawn a paradigm shift for human civilization.
Rather than converting it, we might just want to stand back and listen.
Benek agrees with this, but through his own metaphysical lenses.
He says, The Holy Spirit can work though AI; it can work through anything.
There may be churches set up to deal and promote religious AI in the future.
AI can help spread the word of God.
In fact, AI might help us understand God better.
Prisco takes it a step further: How smart must machines be to understand the so-called mind of God?
5,000 times smarter than humans?
A million times smarter?
Sirius in his recent bookTranscendence.
The most famous one isBina 48, a robotic head that contains a mindclone of Rothblatts still-living wife Bina.
And perhaps thats the only way AI should be launchedwith people uploaded into it.
What fascinates me most about this is the question of who might be the first person uploaded.
Do we send a scientist?
Or a religious person?
That way whatever happens, at the very least, we know humanity is aptly represented.
Zoltan Istvan is the author ofThe Transhumanist Wagerand founder of theTranshumanist Party.
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