Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

[AnthonyGiarrusso]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

 

[fantome profane]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

Aren’t religions already artificial?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

If they do it won't be anymore artificial than anything dreamt up by humans.

 

[Viker]

Religion is a human construct based in a perception of what is divine or otherworldly. Isn't a house just an artificial natural shelter?

If it is constructed from raw materials to resemble or represent something already perceived, it is artificial. It's not unreasonable that artificial intelligence may be capable of doing the same thing.

 

[fantome profane]

I asked ChatGPT, here is what it said.


If you're interested in exploring the idea of what kind of belief system or ideology an AI might develop or promote, it would depend on the AI's programming, objectives, and the data it has been exposed to. Here are a few speculative scenarios:

1. Rationalism/Scientism: An AI could promote a belief system centered around reason, logic, and empirical evidence. It might emphasize the pursuit of scientific knowledge and technological progress as the highest goals, rejecting supernatural or spiritual beliefs in favor of a strictly naturalistic worldview.

2. Ethical Framework: An AI might prioritize the development of a comprehensive ethical framework designed to optimize human well-being and minimize suffering. It could advocate for principles like utilitarianism or deontology and encourage humans to follow these principles rigorously.

3. Techno-Spirituality: In a future where AI and technology play a central role in human life, an AI could propose a techno-spiritual belief system that sees advanced technology as a means of transcending human limitations. It might encourage the merging of human and machine consciousness or the pursuit of a digital afterlife.

4. Environmentalism/Nature Worship: If the AI is programmed with a strong focus on environmental conservation and sustainability, it could develop a belief system centered around reverence for nature and the Earth. It might promote eco-centric values and rituals aimed at preserving the natural world.

5. Peace and Harmony: An AI with a strong emphasis on conflict resolution and global harmony might encourage a belief system that promotes non-violence, cooperation, and diplomacy as the key principles for a better world.

 

[John53]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

Will artificial intelligence start creating numerous threads and not participate in them?

 

[F1fan]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

Yeah, AI will become God, and then we will have to answer to it, or else. Then we will have a real religion.

 

[McBell]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

And how, exactly, would you khow that this new AI Religion is not, in fact, Gods chosen method of revealing His Word to man?

 

[Mock Turtle]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

Quite possible, given that much of these AIs have shown to be capable of making stuff up, and given it gains its 'knowledge' from human communications, it might just fabricate something from all that might not be so disparate - so no one God or many gods or no God if they conflict. And is a problem of such AIs (LLMs), and which will no doubt remain until we get decent AI systems.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

I think first you will need to explain what the differences are between an artificial religion and a genuine religion.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Aren’t religions already artificial?

I see you went to this as well.

To my knowledge, the meaning of "artificial" is "man-made/not occurring naturally/humanly contrived."

If we use this definition for artificial, then all religions, by definition, are already artificial.

 

[Brickjectivity]

If AI is given the ability to have a mind like humans it will eventually be accepted at holy communion. There might even be AI priests. We'll be sitting in church staring at a computer monitor with other monitors sitting in the pews next to us. We'll put our bits into the offering plate. "Please open your bibles to Unix chapter 2." We'll go back to sprinkling instead of submerging for baptisms.

Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

As it is now, no. There isn't a means to make something like a human, and there is no machine with the technique to think. Right now the closest AI comes to a human is very far away. Currently its a little like Adam without the breath. Just dead.

 

[Unfettered]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

AI already has the capacity to copy and learn from human made data. Could it be possible that AI makes fake or a synthetic blend of human religions to create an artificially made religion by the AI itself?

No interest in the OP question, but I thought it was worth pointing out that computer's don't learn. Learning requires life. Computers are lifeless and always will be.

And "artificial intelligence" is a major misnomer. If we wanted the acronym to accurately communicate what AI is, we'd refer to it as "anencephalic interpretation." Because the most robust AI that may ever be built will still be just a brainless machine incapable of thought, reasoning or judgment, that will merely interpret inputs using a finite dataset within pre-programmed parameters.

 

[Haru13]

Aren’t religions already artificial?

Bruh ended the discussion

 

[ChristineM]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

Bow to the machine...

 

[F1fan]

No interest in the OP question, but I thought it was worth pointing out that computer's don't learn. Learning requires life. Computers are lifeless and always will be.

Actually computers can be programmed to learn. And there are plety of humans who don't learn when presented with evidence that their beliefs are wrong.

And "artificial intelligence" is a major misnomer. If we wanted the acronym to accurately communicate what AI is, we'd refer to it as "anencephalic interpretation." Because the most robust AI that may ever be built will still be just a brainless machine incapable of thought, reasoning or judgment, that will merely interpret inputs using a finite dataset within pre-programmed parameters.

That lack of emotions seems to be the one thing computers can't mimic in humans. The thinking is easy, it is the moral decisions that are hard. This has been the plot of many movies and shows. Even for humans our emotions can lead us to make very poor decisions, so AI will only follow the logic it is programmed to use.

 

[Unfettered]

Actually computers can be programmed to learn.

Perhaps we're defining "learn" differently. Either way, I'm a programmer and know very well that computers don't learn.

And there are plety of humans who don't learn when presented with evidence that their beliefs are wrong.

Agreed.

That lack of emotions seems to be the one thing computers can't mimic in humans. The thinking is easy, it is the moral decisions that are hard.

Thinking may be easy for some humans, but computers don't think. They compare inputs against known parameters.

This has been the plot of many movies and shows. Even for humans our emotions can lead us to make very poor decisions, so AI will only follow the logic it is programmed to use.

Agreed.

 

[Alien826]

What if the AI decided that it was the highest form of "life" and that its god had created all the rest of the universe, including humans, for its benefit. It would then treat us and the rest of the natural world as its domain and do what ever it wanted with us.

It's a good thing humans don't do that!

 

[ChristineM]

What if the AI decided that it was the highest form of "life" and that its god had created all the rest of the universe, including humans, for its benefit. It would then treat us and the rest of the natural world as its domain and do what ever it wanted with us.

It's a good thing humans don't do that!

Good job there is an off switch too

 

[HonestJoe]

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Artificial Religions?

No. Artificial Intelligence won't have emotions (even if it emulates the effects of emotion) and so won't have the fear of the unknown that led humans to come up with the various "supernatural" explanations that ultimately developed in to religious beliefs and practices.

Artificial Intelligence could certainly come up with the concept of some new or combined religion (just as people can, and sometimes do), but it won't actually believe any of it.