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Guiding Principles for the Mormon Church's Use of AI

by madpen on 3/21/24, 3:24 AM with 76 comments

• by mtillman on 3/21/24, 5:47 AM

  It’ll be interesting to see how the various cults adopt this technology. They certainly have plenty of money to acquire the hardware. The Vatican has fairly advanced computing infrastructure from what I understand as well: https://cerncourier.com/a/quantum-gravity-in-the-vatican/

• by sudhirj on 3/21/24, 5:58 AM

  Putting aside the weird beliefs, the principles themselves are actually pretty decent and widely applicable. Strange place for principled thought leadership to come from :-/

• by andsoitis on 3/21/24, 5:43 AM

  > Elder Gong said reliance on the Holy Spirit can help inoculate against deepfakes.

  How does that work?

• by YossarianFrPrez on 3/21/24, 5:56 AM

  I half-expect some sub-branch of the abrahamic religions to issue an edict against AI, arguing that it's a false idol. (Not that I am arguing for this.)

• by blackhawkC17 on 3/21/24, 7:31 AM

  A bit off-topic, but can a Mormon explain the reason why Mormons have a lot of kids?

  The simple answer would be religion, but even mainstream American Christians don't have kids at that level. I know a Mormon tech tycoon with 10 kids and another tycoon with 14 kids, lol

• by PlunderBunny on 3/22/24, 2:42 AM

  I'm glad this was posted - I appreciate reading it because I wouldn't normally be exposed to this sort of article.