I teach technical AI courses but have little understanding of AI’s societal impact. I am not alone. Many people are pondering the ethics and morality of AI. Over the last thirty five years, I have found my ethical and moral guidance through the Bible. These are my thoughts on how I aim to live a godly life in my use of AI.
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GOTO Bible
I will not trust AI as a reliable source of Biblical information.
I will use ChatBots to lookup Biblical information. For example, “Where does [this character] appear throughout the Old Testament?”
Having found the references I will then look them up in my Bible. The creative element of ChatBots means they are prone to generating inaccurate information.
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Do to others
I will not use AI to generate text, images, audio or videos to mistreat my friends or enemies.
ChatBots can generate content to do harm to others. Content such as text, images, audio and video can be created in seconds and then shared around the world. This could be text to confuse, an image to belittle, audio to deceive or a video to promote lies. The combination of high-impact content and digital communications is a dangerous combination.
27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. (Luke 6:27-28, NIV)