It seems not-very-unlikely to me that, over the next few years, many major (and some non-major) world religions will develop a “Butlerian” attitude to machine intelligence: deeming it a profanity to attempt to replicate (or even to do things that have a non-negligible chance to result in replicating) all the so-far-unique capacities/properties of the human mind, and will use it to justify their support of a ban, along with the catastrophic/existential risks on which they (or some fraction of them) would agree with worried seculars.
In a sense, both human-bio-engineering and AI are (admissible to be seen by conservatively religious folks as) about “manipulating the God-given essence of humanity”, which amounts to admitting that God’s creation is flawed/imperfect/in need of further improvement.
It seems not-very-unlikely to me that, over the next few years, many major (and some non-major) world religions will develop a “Butlerian” attitude to machine intelligence: deeming it a profanity to attempt to replicate (or even to do things that have a non-negligible chance to result in replicating) all the so-far-unique capacities/properties of the human mind, and will use it to justify their support of a ban, along with the catastrophic/existential risks on which they (or some fraction of them) would agree with worried seculars.
In a sense, both human-bio-engineering and AI are (admissible to be seen by conservatively religious folks as) about “manipulating the God-given essence of humanity”, which amounts to admitting that God’s creation is flawed/imperfect/in need of further improvement.