philip lelyveld The world of entertainment technology

23Dec/21Off

How Judaism can respond to the singular challenge of artificial intelligence

... In my book, Staying Human: A Jewish Theology for the Age of Artificial Intelligence, I show how Jewish tradition espouses the idea of God as everything, the singularity, the network of networks.  ...

Indeed, the danger of the extreme version of the singularity is the levelling of all existence, and the disappearance of the creative and moral space in which individuated beings encounter one another.  ...

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), the French theologian, saw technology as aiming at “absolute efficiency” in human affairs. Halachah is not about efficiency but meaning and relationship in the world of objects. It also brings into play the past, present, and future, which is to be worked towards steadily, not with an eye to conquering the universe but, with reverence, humility, and gratitude, and in the knowledge of our own temporality.  ...

See the full story here: https://www.thejc.com/judaism/all/when-machines-outsmart-humans-5wlWBdfeX2cjjmf0vsEm5j

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