Essays on
the evils of AI are a dime a dozen, but this
report from BusinessInsider.com (via the Children’s Health Defense
web site) seemed to reveal something new:
Billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen — who has long been bullish on the tech — thinks AI is a
lifelong "ally" for the children of tomorrow as they both grow up
together.
Speaking on
the Joe Rogan Experience podcast last Wednesday, Andreessen
shared how he had introduced his 8-year-old son to the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT
as an educational tool.
"The AI that
my 8-year-old is gonna have by the time he's 20, it's gonna have had 12 years
of experience with him, and so it will have grown up with him. It will know
everything he's ever done." Andreessen said. "It'll know what he
wants."
The cofounder of
namesake VC firm Andreessen Horowitz talked about how AI can serve as a
lifelong "ally" for his son and future generations. "They'll
have basically a partner whose goal in life will be to make them as happy and
satisfied and successful as possible."
This should
alarm Orthodox Christians. Every child,
Orthodox or not, receives a Guardian Angel at his conception. Furthermore, every Orthodox child, at his
baptism, receives a Patron Saint. These
holy protectors, Guardian Angels and Patron Saints, are the God-given ‘allies’
with whom Orthodox children ‘grow up together’, who ‘know everything they’ve
ever done’, who are their ‘partners’ whose ‘goal in life’ is not to give the
children what will make them ‘happy, satisfied, and successful’ in a worldly
sense but who will lead them safely through fallen earthly life to the Kingdom
of Heaven.
But our Big
Tech overlords, per the above, are intent on replacing the heavenly protectors
of Orthodox children with an AI simulacrum.
The AI allies are a return to the demonic soothsayers that the Old
Testament Law proscribed. Some words
from the Holy Elder Cleopa Ilie of Romania seem to bear this out. Rather than trusting in God’s will for us as
revealed through the revelations of the saints and angels, etc., unbelievers
turn to the spirits of the dead (i.e., demons) and mediums in order to know
what path to walk in life. Elder Cleopa
writes,
‘The conjurors have the aim and the need to
call upon the spirits of the dead (I believe, however, that in fact they are
spirits of demons which appear in the form of the spirits of the dead) in order
that they may reveal to them certain secrets that relate to the future of the
dead or other curiosities forbidden by the law of God. Listen to what Holy Scripture has to
say: “And when they shall say unto you,
seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter,
Shall not a people seek unto their God?
On behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for
them there is no daybreak’ (Isaiah 8:19-20; The Truth of Our Faith, 3rd
edn., Peter Alban Heers translator & editor, London, Ontario, Uncut
Mountain Press, 2007, pgs. 234-5).
These words
are very apt, for what do our AI chatbots do but ‘chirp and mutter’ revelations
to people who are not content with what the All-Holy Trinity has revealed to
us? Elder Cleopa warns us about this: ‘Indeed, in the Divine Revelation that was
given to us with Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition we lack nothing in the way
of knowing about our salvation, nor do we have need to seek from the dead – or
better, the demons [or even better, AI!—W.G.] – something favourable to our
salvation’ (p. 235).
He adds to
this the following:
. . .
The rest is
at https://orthodoxreflections.com/ai-and-the-image-of-the-beast-at-the-end-of-the-world/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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