AI and Religion – Mind Your Golems

When a Grok-driven autonomous weapon kills a person, so do Elon and his shareholders. When ChatGPT advises your teenager to take her own life, so do Sam Altman, OpenAI, and their employees. And when you train or prompt a network of autonomous agents to hack a bank, you share that responsibility, accountability, and culpability with the humans that run your favourite AI platform. The AI itself is just a number running on a machine. It has no real knowledge of good and evil, other than its human-provided training.

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AI performs better than expected

Skepticism mollified – for specific tasks If you’ve talked to me about AI recently, you’ll know that I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to AI being a panacea for the world’s problems. What between hallucinations about academic articles, many inherent biases, lack of training on obscure subjects, stuff that’s just plain wrong,…

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