Timothy Birdnow

Revelation 13:15

15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."

Sounds very much like an AI system to me!

Imagine if you will a politician taking power and controlling an AI system that shows the AI as HIM and speaks like him, promoting his policies and ideas. It would be the most powerful electoral tool in history; the politician could actually speak personally to each and every voter! It wouldn't be him, of course, but it would be something most people would think WAS him and would vote accordingly. This would not be filtered in a way where people could think about what they were told. It would be like being personally visited by the politician in question. No flyers, no advertisements, no mass mailings or mass e-mails. It would be completely personal and using your online histry it would be tailored for you.

I believe this is what the Bible was speaking about in the above passage. An image of the beast will be made to move and speak, just like an AI image.

AI is not going to go all Skynet and wipe us out. Rather, it will trick us, persuade us, seduce us. In some ways that is far worse.

And it will be a powerful psychological attack, one we will find hard to resist.

AI is perhaps the most dangerous thing we've seen arise since the atomic bomb, and maybe even worse (probably worse). It won't kill bodies but souls.

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