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Is the use of AI ever ethical (even for Bible study)?
I really have a lot of reservations about AI. They all stem from The Technology Problem: any advancement in technologically that advances one’s Alpha leads to a symmetrical growth in Beta demands. But technological efficiency is based on the systematic divorce of Alpha and Beta creating [X] The Maw — leading to a buildup of various forms of exponentially-growing systematic debt (ESD).
While the ESD includes carbon consumption in data-centers and toxic waste pollution in user and IoT hardware (servers + devices) and unknown risks as our radiosphere becomes more and more energized, the worst debt comes in the form of replacing human fruitfulness — our ability to to meaningful things — the second and “growing” phase of [3] The Three Powers. From a spiritual perspective, to give our fruitfulness to machines means we won’t grow which means we won’t become. From a temporal perspective, it terrifies me to think of what the societal results will be of so many humans becoming suddenly useless to each other.
There is only one place where the allure of AI ever tempts me: projects in which the organization of labor is absolutely impractical. For example, I would love to analyze all narratives in scripture for SOF-like structures. It might take ten thousand or a hundred thousand man-hours. GPT-4 could probably do it in an hour. A community of well-organized Bible readers could do it in a few months – but how would we ever be able to organize such a feat when barely anyone reads — let alone reads the Bible with the analytic training required.
But think — if we could do this — how much would the community of readers grow in the process? Lord: increase my faith!
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