AI 'Jerusalem syndrome'?

[SpookyFrank]

Overview here of the problem of vulnerable people and a system that's basically telling them what they want to hear

Religions must be furious that AI is stealing their schtick.

 

[PR1Berske]

Religions must be furious that AI is stealing their schtick.

End of the pier "psychics", walls plastered with faded photos of 1980s TV staples, suddenly find their customer base collapsing as the trade in platitudes and woo-woo goes digital.

 

[NoXion]

Video explores the religious dimension of AI. People think that AIs work like calculators, only producing wrong output due to user error. Parallels are drawn to established religions, which have their roots in times when literacy was a much more rare skill than today, and was thus seen in a more mystical light. Takes a look at Roko's Basilisk, turns out those Less Wrong dudes were leading the way in terms of deifying technology.