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Pondering time! Ep 3413 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio Program. I'm Gary McCance.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining here on episode 3413, Pondering Time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you have to ponder what we're going to talk about today.
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  Speaker 2: According to Futurism, a.
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  Speaker 1: Cult of anthropic insiders rumored to be worshipping Claude as
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  Speaker 1: a god.
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  Speaker 2: You heard it right.
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  Speaker 1: If we build a superintelligence, we will first fall in
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  Speaker 1: love with it. Then we will worship it. Finally, we
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  Speaker 1: will make sacrifices to it. The specter of an omnipotent
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  Speaker 1: large language model that rules over its AI engineers continues
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  Speaker 1: to loom large. The industry already has had its fair
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  Speaker 1: share of brushes with anonymously cult-like behavior from open AI
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  Speaker 1: co-founder commissioning wooden effigies to represent unaligned AIs, to a
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  Speaker 1: murder-set SECT that wants to save the world from killer AI.
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  Speaker 1: As it turns out, Dario Amadi's anthropic is apparently no different.
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  Speaker 1: Just getting hired there requires prospective employees to pledge allegiance
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  Speaker 1: to AI safety, and undergo a psychological profiling test per
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  Speaker 1: the information. According to a rumor that per the spectator
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  Speaker 1: Sean Thomas is running rampant in Silicon Valley these days,
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  Speaker 1: some anthropic engineers are going as far as to worship
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  Speaker 1: the company's AI.
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  Speaker 2: Model, Claude.
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  Speaker 1: If true, it shines with an old sci-fi prediction in
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  Speaker 1: what we know of human nature, Thomas wrote. If we
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  Speaker 1: build a superintelligence, we will first fall in love with it,
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  Speaker 1: then we will worship it, and finally we will make
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  Speaker 1: sacrifices to it. For years now, tech leaders have claimed
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  Speaker 1: in thinly veiled terms that they are working to build
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  Speaker 1: a god-like entity, a magic intelligence in the sky, as
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  Speaker 1: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it back in 2023. I
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  Speaker 1: was just three short years ago as I reached for
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  Speaker 1: my water. You know I had to take a moment
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  Speaker 1: and savor that. S-A-V-O-R. It was delicious and healthy. Some
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  Speaker 1: start-ups have interpreted this in a very literal way, creating
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  Speaker 1: AI chatbots that claim to be channeling God himself, like
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  Speaker 1: a prayer app called Bible Chat, which touts itself as
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  Speaker 1: the number one faith app in the world, with over
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  Speaker 1: 40 million Christian users. Over the years, the conversation has
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  Speaker 1: shifted somewhat, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company's rival.
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  Speaker 2: Company are making such claims without merit.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost as if they kind of think they're creating
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  Speaker 1: God or something, and it's just that's not what we're doing,
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  Speaker 1: he told YouTuber Kane Suter during a conversation in 2024.
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  Speaker 1: But for those inclined to see a ghost in a machine,
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  Speaker 1: the consequences of thinking that they're talking to a God
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  Speaker 1: can be devastating.
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  Speaker 2: Spiraling delusions.
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  Speaker 1: In the form of, you ready, AI and psychosis that
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  Speaker 1: can lead them to believe that they themselves are prophets
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  Speaker 1: or even a divine figure like Jesus himself. For many
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  Speaker 1: employed by a frontier AI lab, it could be a
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  Speaker 1: form of survival instinct. As the BBC reported last month,
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  Speaker 1: some employees are working up to 90 hours a week,
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  Speaker 1: a grueling work culture marked by a cutthroat performance.
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  Speaker 2: Reviews, and frequent layoffs. Sidebar.
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  Speaker 1: In the Christendom world, working those many hours, you'd have
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  Speaker 1: made that job, irrespective of what it is, a little
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  Speaker 1: G-God in your life is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And truth be told, you know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I can remember, I don't mind sharing, priorities are right now,
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  Speaker 1: of working just like that. But on behalf of the poor, disadvantaged,
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  Speaker 1: the homeless, the helpless, the hurting, the hopeless, but still,
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  Speaker 1: It's a belief that some have arguing AI could eventually
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  Speaker 1: turn from a benevolent deity to a harbinger of death
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  Speaker 1: with rogue agents triggering the downfall of humanity. In many ways,
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  Speaker 1: that's the natural conclusion of an existential fear driven by
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  Speaker 1: their faith in an all-powerful emergent entity. Yet their attempts
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  Speaker 1: to strike the fear of God into our souls should
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  Speaker 1: have anybody skeptical, skeptical of obsessive tech leaders' claims, especially
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  Speaker 1: given the enormous financial incentives behind the scenes. Moda, both
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  Speaker 1: OpenAI and Anthropic are gunning to go public before the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, and there's a lot to gain
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  Speaker 1: from convincing investors that you're the conjurer of a mighty
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  Speaker 1: or spiritual force in your competitors, even if reality is
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  Speaker 1: far more mundane than that. You sure you're going to
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  Speaker 1: ponder all this today? You know you should. Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Especially those of you who are of faith in the
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  Speaker 1: God of the Scriptures. Little g man and woman, woman
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  Speaker 1: and man trying to play A little giga here on Earth.