How will religions react to artificial intelligence?

Most of them with butthurt.

>>1417719
Either:
>"Wow neat my toaster can feel love"
Or
>[jihad and fire bombings on love toasters intensifies]
OR
>bitching about intelligent toasters while having a toaster boyfriend on the side

How will religions react to the discovery of sentient extra-terrestrial life? What if these extra-terrestrials have their own different religion?

How will religions react to interspecies relationships?

>>1417719
"How will artificial intelligences react to religion" is the better question

>>1417762
Came here to post exactly this.

>>1417719
How will religion react to one religion being true and the others false?

>inb4 atheism is a viable alternative for reality

I mean, if I worship my donger, doesn't that count as a religion?

>>1417752
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-says-he-would-baptise-aliens-9360632.html

Catholicism would be A-OK

>>1417762
>>1417766
depends on how they are programmed

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>>1417770
>implying any species intelligent enough to cross the vastness of space would ever fall for and convert to such a childish and demonstrably false religion

They'll ignore it like they've ignored every discovery and innovation made in the last hundred years or so.

>>1417781
>I know that an hypothetical being far more intelligent than me would hold the same opinions and beliefs as me

>>1417752
Religion is a hominid thing. It's preposterously unlikely for extraterrestrial life to be religious.

>>1418045
How are you so sure? How many aliens do you know?

>>1417771
I have a sick interest in the idea of a robot programmed to unquestioningly believe in a religion (we'll say Presbyterianism), yet also understand that as a robot it has no soul and thus no hope of salvation. But at the same time "believe" in the infinite love of the Lord and all His teachings.

>>1418045
It's preposterous to assume they are it is however equally preposterous to declare they aren't

>>1418079
None, but I can observe the diversity of life on Earth
>>1418144
Good thing I didn't declare so

>>1417955
These hypothetical beings would have naturally developed a very deep understanding of science and culture, to achieve a level in which they could develop practical space-flight.

To think they'd encounter some fables that even the academics of Earth hold to be myths and believe them 'true' is idiotic.

>>1418045
>It's preposterously unlikely for extraterrestrial life to be religious.
You dummy. Religion is a natural response to being a finite being that can ponder infinite things. Religion is death-denial, it's meaninglessness-denial. It's the foundation of being able to achieve anything without having constant existential crises.

>>1418240
It's a trait chiefly of the great apes.

>>1417719
>it's a "AI=conscious robots" episode

>>1417770

I think that'd be as likely as Europeans converting to native African religions in the 1800s.

It probably happened, but not enough to be even slightly noteworthy.

I feel like if we get visited by aliens we'll have a lot of uncomfortable similarities to what happened in Africa, though, assuming they don't flat out genocide us.

>>1418178
Christianity is objectively true, now back to >>>/r/atheism fag

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>>1418045

They might have their own religions that are less outrageously unscientific.

Who knows, they could find the galaxy itself to be divine, or consider a certain set of principles to be sacrosanct. Religion doesn't immediately = "kek they believe in a magical skydaddy how retarded"

>>1418272
Alien religion is only a bit more likely than extraterrestrial humans.

Who Cult Mechanicus here?

>>1418266
Why do People assume Aliens are more advanced than us?
>not wanting to Colonise Planets and fug aliens qts

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>>1418269
>Christianity is objectively true.

>>1418278

Why?
What makes you conclude that in order to be able to achieve interstellar travel you have to be perfectly rational?
Why do you assume that the whole alien society will inherently be as rational as their scientists who achieve interstellar travel? What makes it so impossible that the average alien will continue to be as retarded as the average human despite advances in technology?
Even if they are all more rational, why do you assume that alien religion is inherently going to appeal to the same irrationality as ours do, or make the same disproven statements? What if their premises are more difficult to disprove? What if their religion is inclined towards a philosophical/moral code rather than the insistence of an Abrahamic style god?

>>1418293
>commie
>reddit filename
Fuck off

>>1418292
Well if they manage to get a ship out here, we have to assume they know some super tech, and have the culture to back it up.

But maybe they are starfaring jellyfishes, iunno.

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How many of you will ditch your meat bodies for superior robot forms if given the opportunity?

>>1418329

I probably won't be an early adopter but once they get the kinks ironed out, probably.

>>1417719
>It is another "Strong AI is real!" episode
Goddamnit it is like i am on /pol/ right now

>>1418341
The strong AI/ weak AI distinction is as artificial as the hard/ easy problem of conciousness.

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>>1417752
What if their gods are real?

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>>1418363
>>1418341
We're not too many technological leaps to scanning and simulating a human brain, and have been making efforts in that direction for decades.

One doesn't even need to solve the "hard" problem of consciousness to do that - it just raises a whole lot more questions in regards to said.

>>1418394
>simulation is duplication
kek

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>>1418320
>recognizing the 'Reddit' filename

Back to plebbit, Christcuck.

>>1417719
Some would shun it, some would try to indoctrinate it, and some very few would worship it.

>>1418329
Won't happen. I might make a digital copy of myself, but there is no way to upload my physical brain. I'll just fork myself, die quietly while my other self lives on, business as usual and all that.

>>1418404
That's why it's AI, and not just I.

>>1418121
A strong AI that believes in God would essentially be interchangeable with the Kabbalist view of angels.

>>1418440
Conscience isn't local

>>1417719
Sentient machines will probably be never reached.

Complex intelligent systems that make our lives easier - yes, why not. We're seeing results of work in such fields.

>>1417752
How will religions react to the discovery of sentient extra-terrestrial life?
Been debated heavily in the middle ages. Apparently, many theologians - most notable Nocholas of Cusa wrote papers on this.

>>1418539
*most notably

>>1418329
Definitely would rake that ride.

>>1417719
Robots need Jesus Christ.

>>1417762
I think air would be very religious, maybe not our current religions, but not atheists.

Consider, they will know that they were created by us for our purposes. They would take the logical leap and wonder if their creators were created, then either they'd believe in an infinite cycle of creation or in a demiurge figure that created brings that created beings, etc that created humans, that created AI. Odds are that the act of creating new ai would either be seen as blasphemy or as a pious self sacrifice.

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>>1417770
>and visiting the Vatican now is His Eminence Archbishop Xenomorphus Ayylmao of the planet Marklar

How will artificial intelligence react to religion?

>>1418121
Kinda like the robot priest on Futurama

>>1417752
What if aliens are god?

>>1418259
So is space exploration.

>>1418171
>None, but I can observe the diversity of life on Earth
how many non-religious forms of life have developped civilization so far?

>>1418121
the robot would rationalize away his soullessness.
He would probably believe that soul automatically comes with sentinence of something

>>1418341
strong AI is real
see human

>>1419963

I'm not aware of gorillas creating spaceships.

>>1418259

Elephants have religion.

>>1417719
>How will religions react to artificial intelligence?

How will the economy react to AI is a better question if you ask me.

>>1419975
It's localized to one species of hominid. If we use that poster's logic, spaceship building if anything is a rarer quirk than having religion.

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>>1419975
>Elephants have religion.

I think I'm going to need some sources.

>>1420056

O'Connell, Caitlin (2007). The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Lives of the Wild Herds of Africa. New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 174, 184. ISBN 0-7432-8441-0.

Siegel RK (1980). “The Psychology of Life After Death” American Psychologist, Vol. 35(10), - see pages 911 to 933

Also for internet wiki tier sources...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_faith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120919-respect-the-dead

>>1418329
Most I'll get is maybe a small personal AI copy of myself copied onto fuck an Iphone or something to give me advice and shit

Maybe a single limb and a single prosthetic eye but never the entire body, don't trust it yet

>>1417794
THIS...

...fuck religoin...

>>1417719
suicide jihad robots.

>>1417781
A1 filename

>>1418121
I feel like the robot could only be convinced otherwise through a forced wipe. Reminds me of the Asimov story about the robot who wouldn't let the crew enter the cabin or whatnot

>>1417719
>How will religions react to artificial intelligence?
Butlerian Jihad

>>1417719
AI will supplant religion, filling the gap which has consumed the feebleminded and uneducated. Many people will become entitled not to have to think or have a conscience as the machine replaces the ineffectual, lazy ass masses.

A huge system of like computers will overtake the mass's productive capacity, making them fully redundant. And it will provide them with such information and entertainment and distraction that god will be all but forgotten.

None of the religions are able to understand the rise of the internet and other stuff. They are ancient texts which have not been updated for centuries, and which no creative new thought has touched in just as long.

They will be swept aside by the Machine Gods, and all the weak shall tremble before the wrath of mighty Judgement!

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the real question is, how will the artificial intelligence react to it's gods aka. humans. i would love to be worshipped by some weird robo-cult.