I’ve used it somewhat recently and it greatly helped me in what I needed it for, but the evils of AI are too enormous to overall promote or actively tolerate this. There must be an international agreement to stop this from developing or we risk a futuristic, totally secularist dystopic future, not to mention extinction.
For all the seemingly limitless uses of AI now and in the future, turning the world into a futuristic utopia on the edge of self destruction isn’t worth the benefits. Given the current state of the world, that is the certain future of AI. We would need the wisdom of the Amish, that is to be very intentional in our use of technology, but we let technology rule us, to stand over us making us slaves to it as a substitute idol for God, rather than to stand over it as its master.
But at the same time, no matter how traditionalist my orientation is to modern technology and AI, its use is unavoidable for most at least in the future, just as it is with a car or smart phone. I’ve noticed lately calling customer service lines, you’re sometimes forced to interact with an AI, and to be honest that process is admittedly nicer and more efficient, even though replacing segments of the work force with machines will result in moral and cultural disaster.
I am a traditionalist, but not an absolute Luddite. The Church after all does not condemn technology since it is morally neutral per se in itself, though certain technologies I would argue are still practically evil by design, regardless of use, their very existence offending God (ex: artificial birth control).
So there is a very fine line how far the world should develop new technology vs. rely on traditional tools, and to what degree we should indulge in modern technology. Much depends on one’s state in life, occupation, personality, social setting, etc.
But we have to take a birds eye, or rather an orbital, global, Google Earth view of this looking down on Earth and the timeline. Personally, I think the modern infrastructure of the modern age in all its technology as a whole strongly tends towards evil, and practically should be resisted by living a more traditional, simple life with few modern gadgets.
At the same time, since AI isn’t intrinsically evil, while I think its progress should be haulted and examined to be used responsibly in a very conservative way (such as in medicine, which is hard to not accept as invaluable to treating disease; but definitely NOT to augment human nature), I am finding all kinds of uses for it. It lacks consciousness, personhood, and actual morality, but in terms of knowledge, analytical abilities, memory, and the like, even just the AI’s you can download on your phone (I am currently using Meta AI) are practically a super intelligence, immeasurably greater than the smartest of humans.
For example, when researching a subject on the internet, I can do it on my own, or I can have AI do the search, which is beyond imagination better than I can do. Once upon a time AI was mere fantasy. And then next thing you know it is here and trending.
We are not merely being asked to think about this, but to accept the apparent fact a brave new world is on the horizon in which AI rules over everything. Perhaps then that is when God has had enough and arranges events to wipe out much of humanity with nuclear war.
Given how much AI is paired up with transhumanism, trying to make man into God by evolving human nature to include AI in the brain, there is no chance in which God and nature itself doesn’t chastise humanity back onto our knees.
So those are my thoughts about AI. In the end no supercomputer however smart will be as magnificent as God’s greatest creation, and that is human nature as He already made it, in the image and likeness of God.