Religion Tap: Resurrection, Crackdowns, and the Machine That Prays 📿⚡
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A weekly dive into Ai’s intersection with faith, exploring the questions that spark thought and challenge tradition.
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China’s Tight Grip on Online Faith The Sri Lanka Guardian reports Beijing cracking down on digital religion after scandals and amid a booming temple economy. The state’s logic is simple: faith online must be monitored, regulated, and contained. Sacred expression becomes another market and another risk.
Resurrected by Ai Religion News Service describes Charlie Kirk commissioning an Ai “resurrection” of his late mother. What once belonged to prayer and memory is now mediated by digital replicas. The dead return in simulated form, raising sharp questions about grief, reverence, and what counts as resurrection.
The Risk of Building at All Vox highlights Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares warning that Ai risk is not hypothetical. If anyone builds it, they argue, the danger follows. Risk is built into creation itself, and restraint is the only safeguard. It is less a technological debate than a moral one: just because we can, should we?
Global Ethics, Local Power Times of Central Asia covers Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev invoking Kipling while pushing for global Ai ethics principles. The gesture signals ambition: smaller states now claim authority to shape moral frameworks for a technology larger than nations.
The Chatbot Confessional WebProNews reports millions turning to Ai chatbots for spiritual guidance and prayer. Machines now hold the role of confidant, counselor, and confessor. The sacred transaction of prayer becomes typed input and machine reply.
Reflections of Power and Substitution Governments restrict digital worship. Politicians resurrect the dead by machine. Chatbots stand in for prayer. Experts warn that risk is guaranteed if creation proceeds. The sacred is not abolished but replaced, pressed through the mouth of systems that cannot breathe.