{"id":34957,"date":"2024-01-17T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=34957"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T18:12:43","slug":"hagase-la-luz-let-there-be-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/hagase-la-luz-let-there-be-light\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00e1gase la luz!\u00a0 Let there be light"},"content":{"rendered":"

H\u00e1gase la luz!\u00a0 Let there be light (Spanish)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

Part 1: What my peers and others are saying.<\/p>\n

Part 2: What I took away from Poole.<\/p>\n

Part 3: How this impacts my NPO<\/p>\n

Epilogue<\/p>\n

Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n

11 January 2024, During a bible study, an elderly gentlemen shared his testimony. He spoke of his assignment in 1950 where he was sent, with other mathematicians like him, to a location where they would explore the ramifications of Artificial Intelligence (AI).\u00a0 He smiled when we registered the time – 1950\u2019s.\u00a0 Yes he said AI discussion has been around for a while.<\/p>\n

I suppose the 50\u2019s syncs with the time Isaac Asimov who wrote, “The Last Question”<\/em> in 1956. It is a science fiction short story that explores themes of entropy, the nature of the universe, and the potential evolution of intelligence.\u00a0 I remember how science combined with my faith when the AI (who existed outside of space and time) finished his data collection on entropy.\u00a0 As the last sun died and entropy was completed \u2013 with all life extinguished, the AI had the answer to reversing entropy.\u00a0 Alas, no one existed to report his data to, so instead the AI said, \u201cLet there be light!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robot Souls: programming in Humanity,<\/em> By Eve Poole, takes the bull by the horns in her AI discussion. [1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 1: What my peers and others are saying. <\/strong><\/p>\n

AI is a fun hot topic discussion.\u00a0 I say fun because currently no has been injured, wounded, mutilated or killed at this writing (so far as I know).\u00a0 But the debate is ferocious.\u00a0 My peers are cautious and bring us back to God. Other sources however, represent the extremes of polarized debate.<\/p>\n

DLGP 02 Ester Edwards<\/u> writes, \u201cThe aspect of the soul being a connection to God Himself, his image in us, might be the very core component that AI cannot replicate, no matter how advanced we become.\u201d<\/p>\n

This missing element \u201cjunk code?\u201d is fascinating (p.74). It appears to me that Poole avoids a \u201creligious barrier\u201d to her readers but accepts \u201csomething else\u201d is afoot. \u00a0I personally became hung up with the terms ontology (fact), and epistemology (how). <\/strong><\/p>\n

DLGP 02 Tim Clark writes<\/u>, \u201cBut the books\u2019 primary argument seems to be that if A.I. is going to be conscious and make judgement decisions, that it must also be programmed to have a soul, because without a soul A.I. could easily act in a psychopathic manner, making decisions based on efficiency alone instead of the kind of things humans value And when a computer can make terrifyingly quick decisions with potentially global implications, that is a sobering argument. <\/strong>Clark ends, Eve Poole suggests we might make them as good, if not better, by giving them souls. I\u2019m not yet convinced that\u2019s a great idea.<\/p>\n

I am glad that Tim remembered the Star Trek story.\u00a0 I am unashamedly a Treki.\u00a0 Pool and her table on page 92 Table 5.1 List of Epistemologies \u2013 or what can go wrong will go wrong was hilarious. But these \u201cstory lines\u201d plague the halls of the AI debate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The crown for me was page 93, the algorithms that identified openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism\u2026leading to the Myers Brigg Test and one wonders the Enneagram?\u00a0 So many people sign up for the AI generated algorithms.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

In Foreign Affairs<\/strong>,<\/u> \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u2019s Threat to Democracy – How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks<\/em>\u201d, By Jen Easterly, Scott Schwab, and Cait Conley, January 3, 2024. [2]<\/a> The authors address the fears of AI in our US election year. The write, \u201cWith this technology now more available and powerful than ever, its malicious use is poised to test the security of the United States\u2019 electoral process by giving nefarious actors intent on undermining American democracy\u2014including China, Iran, and Russia\u2014the ability to supercharge their tactics. Specifically, generative AI will amplify cybersecurity risks and make it easier, faster, and cheaper to flood the country with fake content.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a different positive vein, Ted Talks<\/strong> asks the question<\/u>, Could AI give you X-ray vision?<\/p>\n

Tara Boroushaki Salon, \u00a0April 2023. Tara asks, \u201cWhat if a robot could find and deliver your lost phone? AI researcher Tara Boroushaki presents how she’s using wireless signals and sensors to create AI-powered goggles with “X-ray vision,” creating a dynamic new tool with applications from improving efficiency in commercial warehouses to aiding emergency rescues.\u201d[3]<\/a>\u00a0 There are other positive Ted talks\u2026A new species of robot that jump, dance \u2014 and walk on water, Dennis Hong, November 202.\u00a0 The possibilities are endless!<\/p>\n

Part 2: What I took away from Poole. <\/strong><\/p>\n

While there was a lot of AI background in Poole\u2019s book, It was only in Chapter 5 in Thinking Styles,<\/em> that things leaped out at me.<\/p>\n

Lesson 1.<\/u> Page 95.\u00a0 Those who are more open will tend to be interested in patterns, possibility, and in attending to their so-called \u2018sixth sense.\u2019\u00a0 Those who are less open will tend to shy away from these and take refuge in the concrete, the known, the tried and tested, and that which can be materially sensed.<\/p>\n

SHAZAM.\u00a0 This perfectly describes my GoodSports International Board who is resistant to establishing GoodSports Ukraine.\u00a0 They are accountants who reside in the concrete.\u00a0 The \u201cexplorer gene, the risk-taking gene\u201d is something they do not have.\u00a0 How do I help these folk with a lack of openness to rethink the missionary possibilities in Ukraine?<\/b><\/p>\n

Lesson 2:<\/u> Page 96, The Myers Briggs psychometric tool (MBTI) is a product of an algorithm.\u00a0 I wonder if the enneagram is also a spiritual algorithm.<\/p>\n

I have always had a healthy aversion to both. Alas my cynicism bleeds through.\u00a0 I have been playing with the Algorithms in YouTube.\u00a0 Watching one goofy thing enables the YouTube\u00a0 algorithm to find HUNDREDS of other goofy things. It also works for research!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesson 3: <\/strong>Page 98, On Aristotle\u2019s three aspects of intellectual virtues<\/p>\n

Phronesis (practical wisdom), unlike episteme (science) and techne (art) which are easily AI programmable\u00a0 \u2026(99). Phronesis\u2026being simultaneously better and worse done by humans\u2026best done by humans because of the complexity of their thinking, but it is also worse done by humans because of their tendence towards bias and error.<\/p>\n

Tim Clark mentions this in his blogpost.\u00a0 IF AI needs a soul to be effective, whose soul will it be?\u00a0 I can only pray that the Holy Trinity is not sleeping on the topic.\u00a0 I pray that Holy Spirit breathes into the shell of AI.\u00a0 Any other human soul would be a disaster in the making. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Part 3: How this impacts my NPO. <\/strong><\/p>\n

ChatGPT has improved the rate of improving the refugee resettlement mobile website Interlinkt.org.\u00a0 The AI created English as a Second Language (ESL) lesson plans for the 12 refugee resettlement tasks within 10 seconds for each task.\u00a0 It has provided translation as the initial translation for the 12 Temporary Protected Status languages.<\/p>\n

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The associate computer programs helped us create the videos that introduce Interlinkt.org to non-religious NGO\u2019s and churches.\u00a0 I am grateful.<\/p>\n

No Church basic intro: https:\/\/www.wevideo.com\/view\/3290515698<\/p>\n

Church included basic intro: https:\/\/www.wevideo.com\/view\/3289823531<\/p>\n

How churches can use interlink: https:\/\/www.wevideo.com\/view\/3290073676<\/a><\/p>\n

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Epilogue: <\/strong><\/p>\n

On page 65, Poole brings up Eugenics. In a fit of Inquiry, I asked AI if Margaret Sanger was a racist.\u00a0 ChatGPT, \u201cMargaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, has faced criticism and controversy regarding her views on race. Some critics argue that Sanger held racist and eugenicist beliefs. They point to certain statements and associations that suggest she may have supported policies aimed at controlling the population based on racial and eugenic considerations.\u00a0 Sanger did associate<\/strong> with individuals and organizations that were proponents of eugenics, a movement that aimed to improve the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding. Additionally, she spoke at events organized by the Ku Klux Klan<\/strong>, although the extent and context of these associations are debated.\u201d<\/p>\n

And finally the end\u2026<\/p>\n

Poole writes, \u201cFaith is global in its reach and spread, and has not yet been categorically superseded as an explanatory narrative\u201d (p.106).<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

______________________________________________________<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Poole, Eve. Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity<\/em>. First edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2024.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Easterly, Jen, Scott Schwab, and Cait Conley. 2024. \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u2019s Threat to Democracy.\u201d Foreign Affairs, January 3, 2024. https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/artificial-intelligences-threat-democracy?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=How%20the%20War%20in%20Gaza%20Revived%20the%20Axis%20of%20Resistance&utm_content=20240117&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/tara_boroushaki_could_ai_give_you_x_ray_vision?user_email_address=4e14a9603a74418cac88517d8b0ac321<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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