The discourse around AI (both postively and negatively), often mirrors the discourse and moral panics I’d encounter back in my evangelical days. This article is excellent: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/silicon-vall... - ThreadSky

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cowboycoyote.bsky.social • 57 days ago

The discourse around AI (both postively and negatively), often mirrors the discourse and moral panics I’d encounter back in my evangelical days. This article is excellent: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/silicon-valleys-obsession-with-ai-looks-a-lot-like-religion/

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leonhardrat.bsky.social•57 days ago

It's hard to see it being any other way, unfortunately. On the AI panic side of things, the term "AI" has been so strongly associated with the accelerating pace of technology and all kinds of thinly-veiled corporate greed. Fear and anger are natural responses.

cowboycoyote.bsky.social•57 days ago

Those who praise AI are evangelicals, believing machines to be capable of bearing and breathing rucah. They prophesy about a future of singularity, the coming “apocalypse” for a technological, secular world.

cowboycoyote.bsky.social•57 days ago

Those who oppose AI fully are akin to “new atheists,” becoming fundamentally & insufferably opposed towards something they in the same breath, will claim is all smoke-and-mirrors. To a nonbeliever, AI both “threatens the future of art,” and “is a marketing hype cycle that will die soon.”

cowboycoyote.bsky.social•57 days ago

I don’t think either view is healthy or normal, but I swear it’s following a similar media and discourse cycle to those I saw when I was a young conservative Christian about [insert any given issue here].

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