Complications for the creation of artificially intelligent robots for service, company or sex are the intrigue of movies and television programs for decades, from “Terminator” to “Bicentennial Man” in “Ai AI. “” in “Westworld. “” While some of these entertainment properties describe human-Ai relations as potentially good, others have warned against inevitable and unforeseen dangers. All supposed that such “relationships” are indeed possible, that electronic or robotic entities can achieve self -awareness, human emotions and authentic relationships.
Perhaps the years of being started by science fiction explain curiosity and even openness to relations with emerging and real AI. For example, a group of researchers who have analyzed a million Chatgpt conversations recently reported This “sexual role -playing” was the second most widespread way that people are linked to AI. Other uses include the company and even therapy. The penis reported that the psychologist Bot on a AI character generator service received more than 95 million messages. The same service allows users to generate an almost infinite variety of “friends” AI customizable. A new Yougov / Institute for Family Studies investigation Of 2,000 adults under 40 found that 10% of respondents were open to AI friendship, while a quarter thought that AI had the potential to replace real life romantic Relations.
According to Another analysis of the Institute of Family StudiesThose who tend to believe what was until recently considered as a fiction is transformed into two groups: those whose human relations are already absent or broken; And those who already turn to digital substitutes, in particular pornography, by intimacy. On the other hand, young adults of intact families are much less comfortable to treat AI entities as human beings. 61% who still had married parents at 16 were against AI “friendships”, while only 52% of non -intact households were against them. Those who grew up without married parents were also more likely to say that they were “not sure” or have “mixed feelings” on friendships with artificial intelligences.
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While opposition to sex or romantic relations with AI was a little higher in all areas, the same general trend has held. 75% of young single adults in intact families were “against or uncomfortable with” AI novels, against 66% of those from non -intact families. And revealer, the group most According to this investigation, open to befriend or go out with a discussion bot.
In short, less real family stability is more open to the “relationships” of AI of all types. More dependence on virtual substitutes for human intimacy is equivalent to more openness to “sex robots” and other erotic uses of AI. The clear model reveals more about who we are as human beings than on the ability of AI to know, think or love.
God made us in relation to relatives, friends, spouses and children, and those who have real ties in their lives are less likely to fall for artificial substitutes. Conversely, those who do not have a solid family foundation, either because of an absent parent, a divorce or death, are more vulnerable to emerging technologies that imitate these things. Those who are already used or addicted to a screen instead of a spouse for erotic accomplishment are ducks sitting now that the screens “speak”.
There are both warnings and encouragement in these figures. The warning is that our long -standing generational forms of relational rupture, family fracture, loneliness and dependence are likely to metastate in the AI era. Those who turn to simulated relationships will not find what they are looking for, because unlike a lot of science fiction, these things are not human, or even conscious. They will literally seek love in all bad places. Unfortunately, that will not prevent much from trying and walking further in unreality in the denial of their humanity given by God.
The encouragement of these surveys is the inoculating effect of reality. Anyone who knows the true blessings of God is, in a sense, before dangerous substitutes. To borrow an analogy from CS Lewis’ The weight of glory, Those who know what we hear by sea holidays will not be satisfied with “mud pies in the slums”.
Intact families, real friendships and a true romantic love make the counterfeits of IA less attractive. This should motivate all those who have found the accomplishment of being in relation to God to protect and cultivate these blessings, and to invite those who are not in the heat of authentic relationships, to know and to be known to God and their colleagues carrying image. After all, the evidence suggests that when they know the difference, people prefer relationships with other people with the most sophisticated digital products.
Originally published at Stop point.
John Sonestreet is president of the Colson Center for Christian World View. He is an author and speaker sought in the fields of faith and culture, theology, vision of the world, education and apologetics.
Shane Morris is a senior writer at the Colson Center, where he is the resident Calvinist and the Millennium Graduate, a home graduate since 2010, and a trainee under Chuck Colson. He writes comments and columns of stopping points. Shane also wrote for the Federalist, the Christian Post and Summit Minister, and he regularly blogs for Patheos Evangelical as a disturbance of Israel.