The lively oracles of God are the most valuable thing

In recent weeks there has been a plethora of concern about the dangers of AI. One is the fear that AI will create new religions.

Comment John Stevens

Israeli public intellectual Yuval Noah Harari recently told a conference in Switzerland: ‘In the future we might see the first cults and religions in history whose revered texts were written by a non-human intelligence. Of course, religions throughout history claimed that their holy books were written by unknown human intelligence. This was never true before. This could become true very, very quickly, with far-reaching consequences.’