my extremely religious brother, like 100% chabbad cult religious. Genuinely believes AI isn’t just super intelligent, but spiritually superior, with access to collective psychic magical intelligence.
The prototype AI Morpheus, from the original Deus Ex (2001):
The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.
The sequel, Invisible War (2003), even has terminals with holographic versions of essentially a Hatsune Miku esque character, a fully digital version of a pop idol who does actually have a real human as a basis, but she’s sold her likeness.
People go to the terminals and have parasocial relationships with an AI version of her personality, use it almost like a Catholic Confessional booth / ‘only friend that really understands them’… because it is programmed to be agreeable, encouraging, cheeful, optimistic, friendly, basically no matter what.
And, the AI version of that personality is networked, and that network is tapped by security and intelligence agencies, who use it to identify and track potential or actual criminals, terrorists, etc.
my extremely religious brother, like 100% chabbad cult religious. Genuinely believes AI isn’t just super intelligent, but spiritually superior, with access to collective psychic magical intelligence.
Undoubtedly blasphemy.
The prototype AI Morpheus, from the original Deus Ex (2001):
The sequel, Invisible War (2003), even has terminals with holographic versions of essentially a Hatsune Miku esque character, a fully digital version of a pop idol who does actually have a real human as a basis, but she’s sold her likeness.
People go to the terminals and have parasocial relationships with an AI version of her personality, use it almost like a Catholic Confessional booth / ‘only friend that really understands them’… because it is programmed to be agreeable, encouraging, cheeful, optimistic, friendly, basically no matter what.
And, the AI version of that personality is networked, and that network is tapped by security and intelligence agencies, who use it to identify and track potential or actual criminals, terrorists, etc.
Religious people are usually so stable trustworthy and steadfast in their beliefs; this is so disappointing.
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