I don't see a problem with the use of AI to construct theology - despite the rich irony when that theology aims to circumscribe AI's boundaries.
But you lost me here: "What if [the human-AI] partnership were just as meaningful as the one between God and humanity, a similar partnership of beings that are both like and unlike?" If AI creates not just a difference in degree (of intelligence, human expression, work output etc.) but in type (standing alongside the God/human relationship which defines what makes humans unique and worthy of human rights) , then you may have crossed over into the transhumanist embrace of AI. Not sure there's a middle ground. What else would that ‘unlike’ be?
Very interesting! I also personally only use AI for research but not for writing.
I think the future will (somehow) skew back to valuing human-human interactions, after the internet becomes consumed with AI content which humans can no longer discern from human content (that's already happening at a pretty rapid rate). At least sermons have a delivery. But content that only exists online (as its medium for delivery and consumption) does not have a bright future.
I don't see a problem with the use of AI to construct theology - despite the rich irony when that theology aims to circumscribe AI's boundaries.
But you lost me here: "What if [the human-AI] partnership were just as meaningful as the one between God and humanity, a similar partnership of beings that are both like and unlike?" If AI creates not just a difference in degree (of intelligence, human expression, work output etc.) but in type (standing alongside the God/human relationship which defines what makes humans unique and worthy of human rights) , then you may have crossed over into the transhumanist embrace of AI. Not sure there's a middle ground. What else would that ‘unlike’ be?
I do think it is a difference in type, but I don't think that involves an embrace of transhumanism.
Very interesting! I also personally only use AI for research but not for writing.
I think the future will (somehow) skew back to valuing human-human interactions, after the internet becomes consumed with AI content which humans can no longer discern from human content (that's already happening at a pretty rapid rate). At least sermons have a delivery. But content that only exists online (as its medium for delivery and consumption) does not have a bright future.