This feels obvious. Like I get why Buddhism might’ve been plausible, but part of the point of sermons is that they come from someone who gets it. No matter how much an AI can understand Buddhism it can’t understand desire and how it feels to grapple with letting it go. Taoism feels like a worse fit as part of what it deals with is nature and an AI can’t understand what it is like to live in harmony with the world or how it feels to be discordant from it. Christianity is a toss up in there. AI doesn’t have a soul and I understand why that would turn off Christians as well as the fact that many sects focus on personal relationships with their god, but I also understand that many Christian sects are adapting new tools to assist in their devotion. I think that AI Bible study would probably be more appealing to them in the present.
This feels obvious. Like I get why Buddhism might’ve been plausible, but part of the point of sermons is that they come from someone who gets it. No matter how much an AI can understand Buddhism it can’t understand desire and how it feels to grapple with letting it go. Taoism feels like a worse fit as part of what it deals with is nature and an AI can’t understand what it is like to live in harmony with the world or how it feels to be discordant from it. Christianity is a toss up in there. AI doesn’t have a soul and I understand why that would turn off Christians as well as the fact that many sects focus on personal relationships with their god, but I also understand that many Christian sects are adapting new tools to assist in their devotion. I think that AI Bible study would probably be more appealing to them in the present.