
Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:
"LLMs allow dead (or non-verbal) people to speak" - spiritualism/channelling
"what happens when the AI turns us all into paperclips?" - end times prophecy
"AI will be able to magically predict everything" - astrology/tarot cards
"...what if you're wrong? The AI will punish you for lacking faith in Bayesian stats" - Pascal's wager
"It'll fix climate change!" - stewardship theology
Turns out studying religion comes in handy for understanding supposedly 'rationalist' ideas about AI.