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Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries
As concerns grow about AI chatbots leading users into delusional spirals, prominent spiritual influencers are capitalizing on an emerging form of techno-spirituality.
He isn’t alone in making such grandiose claims: A growing number of prominent social media figures are now co-opting the language of New Age spirituality, wellness, and quantum woo to position AI as a gateway to numinous wisdom, through which their followers can inch closer to enlightenment. Grant acknowledges the risk that AI can distort one’s sense of reality and personal identity, so he added some safeguards to The Architect in an effort to prevent “egoic inflation.” While designing the GPT, he specified that it “should not automatically affirm the user’s beliefs, assumptions, or worldviews,” according to a screenshot viewed by WIRED. In a recent conversation with the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Zuckerberg claimed(without citing hard evidence) that the average American had “fewer than three friends,” and that each of us has a “demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends.” (Of the fact that the social media algorithms he helped to pioneer played a role in the mental health crisis he’s now ostensibly trying to solve, Zuck made no mention.
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