Churches organize as critics of AI labs, WSJ reports
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The Wall Street Journal reports that churches, from the Vatican to Baptist congregations, are becoming organized critics of AI labs.
The report says the labs partly invited this by talking about building minds that might escape their makers' control, a theme the report links to biblical stories of creation, rebellion and hubris.
Notre Dame philosopher Meghan Sullivan tells the Journal that churches give anxious communities a ready vehicle for advocacy. She adds that this can turn existing local opposition to data centers and Flock cameras into organized voting.
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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiXChurches become organized critics of AI labs, per WSJ reportAIThe Wall Street Journal reports that churches are becoming organized critics of AI labs, from the Vatican to Baptist pulpits. Labs partly invited this, since talk of building minds that might escape their makers' control echoes biblical stories of creation, rebellion and hubris. Notre Dame philosopher Meghan Sullivan says churches give anxious communities a ready vehicle for advocacy, adding organized voters to existing local anger over data centers and Flock cameras.

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