A.I. (& us) | Jake Haber (10.11.26)

We've all been experiencing a large cultural shift in the form of Artificial Intelligence. The advent of this new technology raises serious questions about what it means to be human.

 

In today's message, we explore the deeper spiritual implications of AI, and how to have a healthy relationship with these rapidly evolving technologies.

 

Quotes:

 

“AI is not one thing—it is a sprawling field of interlocking techniques, tools, and capabilities, developing and deploying across domains and specific applications” —Brookings

 

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” —John Culkin

 

“Vulnerability is the precondition to contact…You can form no intimacy without vulnerability.” —Junot Diaz

 

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” — Alan

 

"If there is one theme that emerged again and again—from our questions, from the answers, from the vast troves of sacred data the AI was analyzing—it was this: love. The meaning of everything is love. That is what the entire record of humanity drills down to. It’s all about love. Love is everything. It is the most divine giftvwe have. When we give it away, we are given more of it. When we come back to it in the present moment, we are in heaven."— Iain S. Thomas; Jasmine Wang; GPT-3

 

“The solution of mankind’s most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel