Could ChatGPT Create a New Religion?
May 2nd, 2023Flashback 2017: Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence
Via: Daily Mail:
The world is on the verge of a new religion created by artificial intelligence, the historian Yuval Noah Harari has claimed.
The academic – known for his bestselling book Sapiens – said software such as ChatGPT could attract worshippers by writing its own sacred texts.
Speaking at a science conference, he said AI had crossed a new frontier by ‘gaining mastery’ of our language and was now capable of using it to shape human culture.
Dr Harari used the event to add his voice to growing calls for urgent regulation over the sector, which experts have warned is amid a ‘dangerous’ arms race.
He said: ‘In the future we might see the first cults and religions in history whose revered texts were written by a non-human intelligence.
