{"id":137204,"date":"2025-05-21T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137204"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:32:13","slug":"ru-terry-mattingly-life-beyond-screens-thinking-about-an-ai-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137204","title":{"rendered":"(RU) Terry Mattingly-Life Beyond Screens: Thinking About An AI Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This brings us to an increasingly relevant question: Can a computer lie? That leads directly to another hot-button question: Can a computer&nbsp;<em>sin<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, a computer can be programmed \u2014 by sinful, fallen human beings \u2014 to twist facts or manipulate data to confuse or deceive people. But are these sins committed by the computers or the programmers?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t a new question. In your mind, if you are of a certain age,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/be9a382c-2ef4-4f4e-a808-cfb9ca5fcbae?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhycXlxIn0.2-qMDgzjKfavsrfAgjBLps1HsBt6XgA2IzXDrZ0svdI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flash back to 1968<\/a>&nbsp;and remember the voice of the HAL 9000 computer saying, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/e24505d1-fa80-4bc0-9c64-acc1e4e1f20b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXhycXlxIn0.2-qMDgzjKfavsrfAgjBLps1HsBt6XgA2IzXDrZ0svdI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I\u2019m sorry Dave, I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ultimate question is whether, at some point, flaws in the programming will merge with some kind of super Artificial Intelligence and the computers will, you know, start working their way through the whole Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionunplugged.com\/news\/2025\/5\/19\/life-beyond-screens-thinking-about-an-ai-apocalypse\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(ANALYSIS\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tweetmattingly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tweetmattingly<\/a>) The Bible has lots to say about lying. It\u2019s clear that lying is a sin. This brings us to an increasingly relevant question: Can a computer lie? That leads directly to another hot-button question: Can a computer sin? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7kXY46xSAC\">https:\/\/t.co\/7kXY46xSAC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Religion Unplugged (@ReligionMag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReligionMag\/status\/1924525838814351429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brings us to an increasingly relevant question: Can a computer lie? That leads directly to another hot-button question: Can a computer&nbsp;sin? Well, a computer can be programmed \u2014 by sinful, fallen human beings \u2014 to twist facts or manipulate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137204\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,178,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-eschatology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137208,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137204\/revisions\/137208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}