Because I teach political science courses, as well as a course titled “Digital Society,” I subscribe to an email newsletter from Project Liberty. Some info on that:
Project Liberty is advancing the responsible development of the internet of tomorrow – designed and governed for the common good.
Project Liberty’s “About” Page https://www.projectliberty.io/about
Anyway, this morning’s email is extremely interesting, a post titled, “The religious and moral impacts of AI.” Among other things, it provides a brief summary of AI-related issues that the world’s major religions are grappling with, as well as each religion’s current response to the complexities posed by this new technology.
Worth reading!
Link to the article: https://email.projectliberty.io/how-religious-communities-are-responding-to-ai?ecid=
For my Digital Society class, in particular, areas like these are essential to keep up on and consider when framing in-class discussions for my students, most of whom can’t really remember a world without iPhones, social media, and digital everything. When we break down our course name to think about “digital” and “society” as separate terms, it is extremely challenging to find anything in American society that doesn’t somehow carry a digital fingerprint.
Maybe I’ll try to put a little time into writing some posts related to this topic. I’ve been quite absent from my blog lately, and at least this subject matter is what’s on my mind anyway!
Katherine Wikoff 
Interesting how much AI will affect society and philosophy!
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A very interesting topic.
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The Truth shall set me free. How can it when we can’t tell the true from false any longer?
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Hopefully we’ll develop new ways of discerning what is true. It’s a brave/scary new world out there. With great potential for both good things and bad, and we can’t quite yet wrap our minds around how the paradigm is changing. I need to write more on this topic. I teach a course at MSOE called “Digital Society,” so I’m constantly thinking about all these things. Maybe it’s time to try arranging all my fragments of understanding into some coherent articulations that might add useful information/insight to the general conversation. Definitely there’s a place for religion going forward, and honestly, that kind of non-scientific, non-data-based, non-rational way of knowing and “being” may end up as the thing (in general) we recognize as the most fully human mode of existence. I probably didn’t express myself very well there, which is why it’s going to take time for me to convey my messy thoughts accurately.
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In fact, to follow up on my earlier reply to your comment, I just now published a short post connecting to an article that gets at some of the things I’m thinking about.
Link to today’s blog post: https://katherinewikoff.com/2024/02/18/algorithms-looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places/
Thanks for the inspiration, Sally! ❤️
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Glad you are back! I’ve been enjoying your AI topic blog posts!
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Thank you, Melinda!❤️
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I’ve been thinking a lot about revolutions lately. Humanity has been through a bunch of them. Big ones include the Cognitive, the Agricultural, the Scientific, the Industrial, and the Computer. Now we’re on the brink of the AI Revolution.
One thing that seems to me to characterize these is their inevitability. There was never any chance we’d opt out of any of these. Another thing is that they were all sharp two-edged swords. Humanity benefited hugely from them, but they also cost us dearly. So dearly it’s legitimate to wonder if it would have been better to have opted out (but see point one about their inevitability).
I think all this is true of coming the AI Revolution. It’s inevitable. It will make massive changes both good and ill (we’re tasting these already). And we will always wonder if it was a smart thing.
As a very funny and much beloved SF book has it, one sometimes has to wonder if it was a good idea to come down from the trees. Or perhaps we never should have left the oceans for dry land. 😉
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