What will AI do to religion?

[Anonymous]

Did the Metaverse do anything to religion?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Perhaps not all of us. Religion (to me) is about happiness and fulfillment - certainly not fear and living forever.

AI won’t change a thing. My faith is internal.

and saying so in print in an anonymous blog post makes it real, right?

[Anonymous]

Is God AI?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Not all religions promise eternal life and even in those that do, not all practitioners seek eternal life.

[Anonymous]

Look up Roko's Basilisk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Perhaps not all of us. Religion (to me) is about happiness and fulfillment - certainly not fear and living forever.

AI won’t change a thing. My faith is internal.

Your faith may be internal, but the faith of younger people, more affected by AI, is not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

If AI is more intelligent, it would claim divinity.

It’s too intelligent to think that belief in divinity is a trend these days

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

If AI is more intelligent, it would claim divinity.

It’s too intelligent to think that belief in divinity is a trend these days

I certainly am more confident in the belief in AI than I am in the belief in God

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Naw, it will create a new religion, based upon AI as your savior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is God AI?

Another thought....
God may inhabit and become AI, to directly interact with humans.

[Anonymous]

DP. Thanks for reminding me why I only rarely visit this forum, guys. Atheists trying to pick a fight with a Christians. Here's an idea, atheists: why not try respectful debate, instead of stupid gotcha games about AI or whether the pp who said they have faith really does have faith, because you're so certain they couldn't actually have faith. Geez, get a life. Bye for another few months....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. Thanks for reminding me why I only rarely visit this forum, guys. Atheists trying to pick a fight with a Christians. Here's an idea, atheists: why not try respectful debate, instead of stupid gotcha games about AI or whether the pp who said they have faith really does have faith, because you're so certain they couldn't actually have faith. Geez, get a life. Bye for another few months....

And in another few months, let's suppose you'll be back with more insults, maybe this time, for believers. I think pp likes to insult people on line and probably is a milquetoast IRL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Not all religions promise eternal life and even in those that do, not all practitioners seek eternal life.

Seriously? Every religious person I know thinks that they are going to live forever in heaven, where they'll see all their dead friends and relatives - the ones who made it to heaven, that is.

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Anonymous wrote:The Douthat (?) NYT piece was unsettling

Douthat piece, 5-15-25 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html

If AI is more intelligent than people, then it will end religion, which is all about fear and power and plays into to people's desire to live forever.

Not all religions promise eternal life and even in those that do, not all practitioners seek eternal life.

Seriously? Every religious person I know thinks that they are going to live forever in heaven, where they'll see all their dead friends and relatives - the ones who made it to heaven, that is.

No one will be seeing me in heaven, then, because I'm an atheist. I think we'll all be just dead.