AI (Artificial Intelligence)

[Bring4th_Austin]

If brilliant minds like Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates - who know incredibly more than I ever will about the capability of artificial intelligence - believe it could evolve to eventually threaten humanity, I don't give a rip whether or not they are atheists.  I respect their knowledge and intelligence in their field of expertise.

My own point isn't exactly that, "They are atheist, so they are wrong." I think they are right, really. Like I said, if the objective materialist mindset continued to hold sway in the advancement of science, then it's probably an inevitability, because the objective materialist camp promotes the disparity between spiritual advancement and scientific advancement. AI technology will continue to advance and, like all technology, our use of it will be an expression of our social mindset. Our own harmful biases and distortions would inevitably, either consciously or unconsciously, be extended into the AI. My main point is that the new atheist crowd is ironically blind to the fact that it is their own biases which would make this inevitable.

So I agree with you about their knowledge and intelligence within their fields of expertise. They are great thinkers. But there is more to the equation than material science, which tends to be their field of expertise. Kind of like Maslow's hammer - if your entire perspective relies upon materialism, then you will address every issue from the material standpoint, which is what I think they are doing. 

What I think is outside of their field of expertise is understanding how society will develop and evolve, and the role that will play in how we as a society develop and use AI.