Bringing the dead back to life.
Gone are the days of the misspelling mail-order bride and au revoir, sweet Nigerian prince.
You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.
Magisterium AI—the Catholic chatbot that Sanders characterizes as a paver on “the Golden Path”—is bad.
Marc Barnes mistakes a call for prudence with a call for prohibition.
The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female.
In this podcast, Marc Barnes and Michael Boland discuss the upcoming New Polity magazine, Issue 7.1, on Man and Woman. Specifically, they discuss the philosophical and metaphysical problems of sexual difference, and how our understanding of man and woman impacts our view of politics.
In this podcast, Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard (creator of MagisteriumAI), and Marc Barnes, editor of New Polity, debate whether Catholics should build and use AI chatbots. Barnes argues that Catholic AI chatbots are objectively evil because they generate probabilistic statements about the faith, are irresponsible in their responses, and are inherently fake conversations with non-persons. Sanders argues that Catholics should embrace this new technological development and that there is an openness from the Vatican about the creation of a true artificial intelligence. This debate is hosted by Edmund Mitchell of the Faith and AI Project.
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Bringing the dead back to life.