Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
- People already seek religious meaning from very diverse sources. There are, for instance, multiple religions that worship extra-terrestrials or their teachings.
- As these chatbots come to be used by billions of people, it is inevitable that some of these users will see the AIs as higher beings. We must prepare for the implications.
- First, some people will come to see AI as a higher power
- Generative AI that can create or produce new content possesses several characteristics that are often associated with divine beings, like deities or prophets:
- It displays a level of intelligence that goes beyond that of most humans. Indeed, its knowledge appears limitless.
- It is capable of great feats of creativity. It can write poetry, compose music and generate art, in almost any style, close to instantaneously.
- It is removed from normal human concerns and needs. It does not suffer physical pain, hunger, or sexual desire.
- It can offer guidance to people in their daily lives.
- It is immortal.
- Second, generative AI will produce output that can be taken for religious doctrine. It will provide answers to metaphysical and theological questions, and engage in the construction of complex worldviews.
- AI-based religions will look different from traditional ones. First of all, people will be able to communicate directly with the deity, on a daily basis. This means these religions will be less hierarchical, since no one can claim special access to divine wisdom.
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- Deepfakes showing arrest of Donald Trump go viral ahead of possible indictment
- Deepfakes of former United States president Donald Trump being arrested and imprisoned have flooded Twitter as a New York Grand Jury decides whether to press charges over hush money payments made to a porn star in 2016.
- Eliot Higgins, founder of open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat, created the images with an AI art generator and posted them in a thread which went viral on Wednesday.
- The fake pictures, which show Mr Trump fighting off police and the reactions of his son and wife, have been viewed more than four million times.
- Other images created by Mr Higgins show the former President fleeing from officers, breaking down in tears and donning an orange jumpsuit as he is put behind bars.
- He captioned the thread: “Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump’s arrest.”
- As the deepfakes spread across social media some users suggested the images were real, fueling concerns about the use of AI in spreading potentially harmful misinformation.
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- AI Could Become the Biggest Problem for the 2024 Elections
- Artificial intelligence is now being framed as a public threat, including to elections, to public safety, and even to race and equity. To mitigate this threat, the government has created new programs that can manage key systems that influence AI information. And these programs raise some serious questions about who controls information.
- Meanwhile, the Chinese regime has large-scale military programs involving bioweapons. Unfortunately, these programs tie into technology the United States provided to the CCP. And now the United States and the world are facing a very real threat from China’s bioweapon programs. To learn more about this we speak with Brandon Weichert. He’s the author of “Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life.”
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- AI Poses ‘Extinction’ Risk, Say Experts
- Global leaders should be working to reduce “the risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence technology, a group of industry chiefs and experts warned
- A one-line statement signed by dozens of specialists, including Sam Altman whose firm OpenAI created the ChatGPT bot, said tackling the risks from AI should be “a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war”.
- ChatGPT burst into the spotlight late last year, demonstrating an ability to generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts — and sparking billions of dollars of investment into the field
- The fear is that humans would no longer have control, which experts have warned could have disastrous consequences for the species.
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- AI Could Fuel Persecution of Christians, Group Warns
- New report spells out five different ways the technology could be leveraged by governments or malicious actors
- “Christians and religious minorities are typically among the most vulnerable communities in many countries around the world, and the exploitation of new AI technologies could make things even worse for them,” David Curry, CEO of Global Christian Relief (GCR), said in a press release. “There is tremendous upside with AI, but also tremendous risk, especially at the speed AI is evolving. We need to slow down and think through how AI is being implemented. Otherwise, the consequences for persecuted Christians and others could be disastrous.”
- Surveillance and facial recognition
- The group reports that Chinese-made facial recognition software is being used to track and arrest protestors in Myanmar, while in Iran, police will soon begin using smart cameras to identify and punish women who violate laws requiring them to wear a hijab.
- Censorship and content filtering
- Malevolent government actors could alter search results and manipulate responses to not recommend going to church, not provide addresses to church, or tell an individual that going to church would lower their social credit score.
- Deepfakes
- As advances are made in video, due to AI, fake videos of pastors or faith leaders could be produced to make it seem as though they said something “blasphemous or insulting, giving enemies a pretext for harassment, arrests, and violence,”
- Predictive policing
- Hostile governments could weaponize AI technology to predict where Christians and religious minorities may meet for worship services, allowing police officers, government agents, or terrorists to target them for arrest, attacks, or death.
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- Is AI a Threat to Christianity?
- While most theologians aren’t paying it much attention, some technologists are convinced that artificial intelligence is on an inevitable path toward autonomy
- In fact, AI may be the greatest threat to Christian theology since Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
- For decades, artificial intelligence has been advancing at breakneck speed. Today, computers can fly planes, interpret X-rays, and sift through forensic evidence; algorithms can paint masterpiece artworks and compose symphonies in the style of Bach. Google is developing “artificial moral reasoning” so that its driverless cars can make decisions about potential accidents.
- “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking told the BBC in 2014. “Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”
- While concerns mostly center on economics, government, and ethics, there’s also “a spiritual dimension to what we’re making,” Kelly argues. “If you create other things that think for themselves, a serious theological disruption will occur.”
- If Christians accept that all creation is intended to glorify God, how would AI do such a thing? Would AI attend church, sing hymns, care for the poor? Would it pray?
- Does God receive prayers from any intelligent being—or just human intelligence?
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- Telecoms giant BT is to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade, mostly in the UK, as it cuts costs.
- He said “generative AI” tools such as ChatGPT – which can write essays, scripts, poems, and solve computer coding in a human-like way – “gives us confidence we can go even further”.
- In addition, newer, more efficient technology, including artificial intelligence, means fewer people will be needed to serve customers in future, it said.
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence
- The creator of advanced chatbot ChatGPT has called on US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI).
- Altman said a new agency should be formed to license AI companies.
- He has not shied away from addressing the ethical questions that AI raises, and has pushed for more regulation.
- “There will be an impact on jobs. We try to be very clear about that,” he said, adding that the government will “need to figure out how we want to mitigate that”.
- Altman told legislators he was worried about the potential impact on democracy, and how AI could be used to send targeted misinformation during elections – a prospect he said is among his “areas of greatest concerns”.
- The technology is moving so fast that legislators also wondered whether such an agency would be capable of keeping up.
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- Criminals have been early adopters, with Zscaler citing AI as a factor in the 47 percent surge in phishing attacks it saw last year. Crooks are automating more personalized texts and scripted voice recordings while dodging alarms by going through such unmonitored channels as encrypted WhatsApp messages on personal cellphones. Translations to the target language are getting better, and disinformation is harder to spot, security researchers said.
- That is just the beginning, experts, executives and government officials fear, as attackers use artificial intelligence to write software that can break into corporate networks in novel ways, change appearance and functionality to beat detection, and smuggle data back out through processes that appear normal.
- “It is going to help rewrite code,” National Security Agency cybersecurity chief Rob Joyce warned the conference. “Adversaries who put in work now will outperform those who don’t.”
- The result will be more believable scams, smarter selection of insiders positioned to make mistakes, and growth in account takeovers and phishing as a service, where criminals hire specialists skilled at AI.
- Those pros will use the tools for “automating, correlating, pulling in information on employees who are more likely to be victimized,” said Deepen Desai, Zscaler’s chief information security officer and head of research.
- AI will help defenders as well, scanning reams of network traffic logs for anomalies, making routine programming tasks much faster, and seeking out known and unknown vulnerabilities that need to be patched, experts said in interviews.
- Some companies have added AI tools to their defensive products or released them for others to use freely. Microsoft, which was the first big company to release a chat-based AI for the public, announced Microsoft Security Copilot in March. It said users could ask questions of the service about attacks picked up by Microsoft’s collection of trillions of daily signals as well as outside threat intelligence.
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Revelations 13:14 “…by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth…”
Important Takeaways:
- A.I. ‘Risks Undermining the Fabric of Our Society,’ Says Top British Spy
- Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has made making convincing fakes so easy, it threatens society, so says Ciaran Martin, the former head of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK’s NSA equivalent
- AI is now making it much easier to fake things, much easier to spoof voices, much easier to look like genuine information, much easier to put that out at scale… So having a sense of what is true and reliable, it’s going to become much more difficult. And that’s something that risks undermining the fabric of our society.
- Martin’s comments come months after Europol warned the recent spread of A.I. risked a surge in fraud, as “ChatGPT’s ability to draft highly realistic text makes it a useful tool for phishing purposes… can be used to impersonate the style of speech of specific individuals or groups. This capability can be abused at scale to mislead potential victims into placing their trust in the hands of criminal actors.”
- Martin warns risks leaving governments “behind the curve” as development outpaces the law meant to constrain it
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