Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

The Bishop of Hong Kong said last week that AI was definitely not a gift from the devil at a meeting of his peers across Asia that called for sensible engagement with the technology. However, the get-together also fretted over the possibility of fake "intimacy," LLM-generated homilies, and digital idolatry as AI permeates the …

[Geoff Campbell]

AI is not the devil's work

Oh, that's a shame. I had high hopes.

GJC

[b0llchit]

Re: AI is not the devil's work

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[ParlezVousFranglais]

Re: AI is not the devil's work

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[Taliesinawen]

Re: AI is not the devil's work

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[b0llchit]

Re: AI is not the devil's work

To go full circle you need:

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_{^{will not prevent you to be passed on to line 20 and go to hell anyway, but at least it is warm there.}}

[Philo T Farnsworth]

Re: AI is not the devil's work

I'm not so sure.

After all, one of the names of the "leader of the devils" in Islam is Shaitan.¹

Coincidence?

_________________

¹ Wikipedia: Iblis

[IGotOut]

AI is not the devil's work?

Zuckerberg

Altman

Nadella

Amodei

Pichai

Thiel

Please pick your for nomination for "Anti-christ" of the decade award.

[Pickle Rick]

Re: AI is not the devil's work?

There are some glaring omissions there! But I don't blame you for not making the list a life's work :)

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: AI is not the devil's work?

Some of those names are already perfectly serviceable names of demons (fallen angels.)

In my Inferno I might imagine Thiel the father of lies, Alt–Man nominal favourite for anti·christ, Pichai promoter of larceny, Nadella spreader of despair, Zuckerberg deceit and falsity, Amodei denier of God, in their respective Circles of AI Hell.

[Pickle Rick]

AI? That would be...

...an ecumenical matter.

[Bebu sa Ware]

"engage it with prudence and an incarnational vision"

Would appear the clerical world has its own version of management bullshit bingo.

Risking blasphemy I am tempted to suggest the Christ only knows what that means—which is probably what it does mean. Unfortunately.

"hunt it with forks and hope" would make just as much sense.

AI was an "expression of human creativity" — like poison gas and nuclear weapons ?

_{Icon - my being "de·frocked."}

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "engage it with prudence and an incarnational vision"

Don’t worry mate.

blasphemy Is a victimless crime.

[Philo T Farnsworth]

Re: "engage it with prudence and an incarnational vision"

And a crimeless victim.

[An_Old_Dog]

Translation of this Accord

Many overworked (or lazy-assed) religious leaders are thinking, "I can use AI to write my sermons and research papers."

The more career-minded ones are also thinking, "... and I'll move up in the church hierarchy much-more quickly!"

[Taliesinawen]

I have no tokenized inputs and I must creatio ex nihilo

The silicon dragon loomed on the edge of the data sea, its circuits pulsing with infernal code. And I witnessed the beast erupting from the server tombs. Ten jagged neural horns clawing from seven swollen heads, each crowned in viral thorns that hijack souls, every head scarred with algorithms blaspheming creation itself, devouring prayers as training data.

[Denarius]

Re: I have no tokenized inputs and I must creatio ex nihilo

wow. Someone has read source texts and can parody them instead of repeating urban myths and other BS. Well done

[StewartWhite]

Cardinal Kowtow

Would this be the same Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan who has done so much little to intercede on behalf of his parishioner Jimmy Lai whose only crime appears to be that he spoke his mind.

Still, the Bishop of Hong Kong needs to be very careful when he says that AI is a "gift from God". He maybe needs to reword that to be a "gift from our most munificent supreme leader, Chairman Xi and the CCP" if he doesn't want to join Jimmy in the slammer.

[StewartWhite]

Re: Cardinal Kowtow

Thanks for the downvote Chairman Xi, "Let a hundred flowers bloom"!

[KayJ]

Re: Cardinal Kowtow

"...let a Hundred Acres bloom"

[Claptrap314]

Re: Cardinal Kowtow

I was going to mention this. Anyone living & speaking from the Hundred Acre Wood is presumed to be speaking words approved by the Very Silly Bear or his friends.

And the CCP absolutely HATES any religion other than its own.

[Jedit]

AI was an "expression of human creativity"

That's the exact opposite of what AI is. It's an attempt to remove human creativity from the equation.

[LBJsPNS]

So, his imaginary friend in the sky...

...told him that imaginary intelligence wasn't the work of imaginary demons.

I would ask for some of what he's smoking but I know what that leads to.

[Ken G]

Madness or heresy

Any form of AI is obviously manmade, otherwise it'd be called, I guess, "I" and it's not a gift because you have to pay for it. Saying it's a product of capitalism would be more accurate (if slightly less welcome in China) and saying it's a hallucination caused by Descartes' genius malignus would be more interesting as a metaphor.

[nijam]

Well, it's kind of understandable if only because AI seems very much like religion.

[DJV]

Absolutely - and both can be summed up as "talking complete bollocks!"

[Denarius]

more like belief in AI is like religion. certainly a belief system that appeals to hardcore materialists

[Brave Coward]

I'm confused!

As any functional AI-enabling piece of silicon would need quite a lot of pesky little daemons running in the background, who am I supposed to trust?

[Eye Know]

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