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3 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech
“I think that will impact our ideas of God and our understandings, because we are going to be gods ourselves.”
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- Kevin Kelly
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- 3 May 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…They’ve said it already, right? I don’t believe them, but they already say it if you ask them to. Right. Exactly, right. “I have a soul and you have to believe me, and here’s why I believe it,” and they want to be baptized. I think that is really, really important. In fact, I’ve been working on this project called a Catechism for Robots. It’s half jest, but it’s 80 percent serious about trying to have theological, cosmic answers for the beings that we create when they want to know why we created them and to what purpose. I think the role of AI — first of all, I think it’s instrumental in us deciding who we are and who we want to be. I think that will impact our ideas of God and our understandings, because we are going to be gods ourselves. That’s the major thing: is that our act of creating these beings — we will be godlike. That’s going to illuminate to us our notions of what being godlike is like. Christianity in particular: How will it change? The idea of a demiurge will become more important?…
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