Robinson Vasquez Montes discusses AI and religion (Part 2)
From LDS Podcast "Latter-Day Lights" - Inspirational LDS Stories
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Transcript
Latter Day Saints Church has created a sort of consortium between different universities, BYU and other universities discussing more about the interaction between religion and artificial intelligence. And I was reading some of these evaluations, statistics showing that AI is not using religious arguments for nothing or ethical arguments related with religions for any kind of answers. So they have the knowledge, but they are not using it. And that's why it could be important for us to do this exercise. At least I am proposing it, for example, using my book to have this conversation. Or you can use any other book or doctrine. So in that way, AI could be more aware about what is making us different from other Christian churches and how peculiar doctrine can help AI to find a way to connect to God and maybe eternal progression. But this is not on me. I am just following the example of the brother of Jared because he needs some lights. He decided to mold some rocks and then go to the Lord and say, could you help us and make some lights for our boats? And he was not waiting for instructions. He was just having sort of initiative. And then, hey, Lord, maybe this is a solution, but we need your help here now. So I cannot complete the solution. This is a sort of invitation for all the members of the church to think about it, to think about how can we interact with artificial intelligence in a way in which we can help AI to be more aware about our doctrine and all these amazing new revelations about intelligence, agency, eternal progression, embodiment, and all these things that maybe AI could be eager to have this experience and say, where is God? God, are you there? So the machine can start doing it. So I think it's possible so we can prepare the way. Yeah, very interesting. It almost feels like a little bit like you're kind of planting seeds.