With artificial intelligence advancing at break-neck speed, Elmira’s Doug Thomas, the president of Secular Connexion, a national humanist organization, is worried about it making moral decisions for us.
“Anytime you turn your life over to a traditional god or to a machine god, you diminish your own freedom, your own responsibility for what you do,” he told The Observer.
Having won battles against the imposition of religious views on atheists and others, he now believes these achievements could be at risk due to the unchecked technological power of those behind AI, many of whom are in hock to the rising tide of far-right Christian nationalism.
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