From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translated from Portuguese, for discernment]:
How foreign forces can enter Christianity in the world and the Church with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is being promoted by clever marketing, which gives it a rationality that it does not have.
And just as it’s beginning to replace jobs, can it replace religious leaders as well?
What is its potential to preach at Masses? And to carry out spiritual reflections?
Here we will talk about what Artificial Intelligence is, how it works in essence and its limits, how far it is already escalating and will escalate in spiritual matters, and what challenges it is presenting current civilization and religions.
The Israeli historian, globalist and atheist Yuval Harari, has recently said that throughout history, religions dreamed of having “a book written by a superhuman intelligence,” which for him, never happened.
But he maintains that “within a few years there may be religions that are really correct” because their holy books will be written by an Artificial Intelligence.
This, Harari suggests, has not happened yet, but from June 7 to 11, 2023, hundreds of people attended a Protestant service in Germany generated almost entirely by Artificial Intelligence.
The preaching was done by an Artificial Intelligence chatbot, under the guidance of 29-year-old University of Vienna theologian and philosopher Jonas Simmerlein, who used Chat Gpt to organize this first service.
Artificial Intelligence told the faithful not to fear death, and addressed topics such as climate change, the war in Ukraine — and Artificial Intelligence.
The entire service was “led” by four different on-screen avatars: two young women and two young men.
And in addition to preaching, they led prayers and praise.
In this first attempt, the most common criticisms were that the avatars showed no emotions, had no body language, and spoke too fast.
And there was no real interaction between the believers and the chatbot, as there would have been with a human pastor.
But in reality, the complaints of these initial critics are easily solvable by technology [they claim].
Now, what is this Artificial Intelligence chatbot really about?
It is a large learning model fed huge amounts of historical and contemporary data and texts, written by human authors.
It collects all the information on the internet on all topics.
It is as if you had one million experts on each subject, answering whatever you ask.
This is how these chatbots can know much more than any individual person, even the top experts on a subject.
It is like a super library, which can be accessed in a fraction of a second, summarizing and combining all the information on a subject, impossible for human being.
It can engage in human-like conversations and provide answers to questions, because it is trained with great linguistic models.
This technology is not new; it has been with us in our daily lives for decades.
The Google search engine, for example, is Artificial Intelligence. [scroll for more:]
And it uses the largest database on the planet that is on the internet.
That took a big leap during the confinements forced by Covid, for billions of people were submerged by uploading a large amount of material to the internet.
The massive accumulation of information, never seen before in history, is the springboard that now allows answering any question, with most of the available human knowledge.
For example, if a priest asks ChatGPT to write him a homily on today’s Gospel, the system will have available all the homilies that have been uploaded to the internet for that gospel throughout internet history, and can combine them to create one piece. Extremely powerful.
Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT in particular are essentially just that.
Remember, a computer is a creation of man and the various programs that are inserted into it are created by men.
The same as the information in your database.
We may be surprised by the data it presents to us, but nothing will come out of what is put in.
Artificial Intelligence has no rationality, because reason, the true ability to think, belongs to the spirit. [SD note: so does creativity.]
God created man and made him in His image and likeness, and although man can create a likeness of himself, he cannot give him the spirit.
But today we read preaching that Artificial Intelligence will soon catch up with and surpass human intelligence, which is nothing more than marketing by technology companies — a marketing whose objective is to expand the power they already have.
This development poses three main risks.
In the short term, risk of misinformation, consolidation of politically correct language, and population control.
In the medium term, risk of job loss.
And in the long term, the possibility of loss of control by humanity.
Misinformation is already a current problem, because many times the ChatGPT produces false information in a convincing way, which its owners call hallucinations.
In addition, when asked about any topic, Chat always discard alternative information, presenting only politically correct information and bombarding information that contradicts it.
Which has led some analysts to say that it is a tool of political, psychological, and social control.
That’s already starkly present in China, because the Chinese Communist Party uses its power to monitor its citizens through Artificial Intelligence, deducting points from citizens who misbehave.
In the medium term, Artificial Intelligence can cause considerable unemployment, by successfully automating many tasks that people currently perform, at a lower cost than human beings and in less time.
For example, people in call centers, internet content moderators, legal assistants, and translators are already being replaced.
For this reason the globalists are pushing for the universal basic salary, because there will be a considerable number of people who will be at home, because they will not have a job, and in turn will be entertained within the “metaverse.”
And the long-term risks are that Artificial Intelligence systems will escape human control and even destroy humanity, just as science fiction movies have predicted.
But that will depend if they are given the ability to create their own secondary objectives, and that they can make the decision of maximizing their power. [scroll for more:]
Faced with all these risks, voices have been raised calling for its regulation to avoid disasters, for example, Elon Musk has done it; which is not bad.
But the voices that are raised within the big tech have a double meaning, because they call for it to be a restricted field for those who are already working on it, to avoid excesses and errors according to them.
Which ultimately means that the big tech companies consolidate even more in the domain of this technology and avoid other competitors.
While in recent months, representatives of the three Abrahamic religions have signed the document “Rome Declaration on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” at the Vatican, a text promoted by the Pontifical Academy for Life, which promotes a sense of responsibility shared between international organizations, national governments, public institutions, and the private sector, so that the human person maintains his centrality in the face of technical and scientific progress.
At least the end is commendable, but it seems to be only an intention.
Well, so far what we wanted to talk about the power that Artificial Intelligence is developing to affect our lives, including our spirituality, and the risks that it entails.
And I would like to ask you if you think that at some point the Bible will be rewritten by Artificial Intelligence and a good part of Christians will accept it, or if you don’t think so.
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