I would not interpret the words of Elder Gong as anti AI. The LDS church is highly invested in AI. Data archiving, management and mining has always been a priority for the church. AI is perfect sauce to add to the existing software capabilities.
What concerns LDS leaders is AI being used to challenge the church and its leaders and standing. This is the same concern government leaders have. Everyone in an establishment position is worried of the powers of AI to persuade people to distrust them.
And frankly, we all should be worried about AI being used to manipulate minds. This does not mean censorship is the solution. It does invite consideration of regulations that inform people that what they are seeing is fake and artificial. I suppose that real actual politicians lying and misleading is OK, but enabling mass production of fake & artificial lying politicians is too much!
I despise the left but "AI uber alles" is NOT a popular position.
Data centers driving up home energy costs is WILDLY unpopular.
If you have anything other than a very basic problem or inquiry, AI customer service chatbots suuuuuuuuck. Comcast's reset protocol for cable is the worst of the bunch. Trying to cancel a subscription like SiriusXM without being rude is damned near impossible.
Finally they still are bad at context, nuance, or even basic math. Google's AI assist tried to pin 3/4 of the year 2026 at 6 AM, but clearly it's 6 PM (if on standard time, that is). I called it out, it said I was right, then regurgitated 6AM.
It does some neat tricks, but I believe companies are very unwise to throw their lot in with AI as the be-all, end-all. It's a bland world and while I'm not against AI, I think it's rather overhyped. Especially with mainstream media pushing it -- so you should KNOW there is an agenda afoot in there somewhere.
The "church" (can we even call it that?) in the West is in dire straights. I have zero faith in them to discern anything let alone stand against this. This is hardly their biggest problem, many churches need to get back to preaching and teaching Gods word first, but I digress. These EA groups see how weak and pathetic our churches are. So this is just easy prey for them. It's disturbing nonetheless though. I will give it to these EA groups, their marketing is top notch. I think they have figured out campaigning on a few legitimate issues makes it easy to suck people in. Obviously for any shared concerns that might exist for us we are coming from an entirely different premise. We should do what we can against this movement. However I believe individuals need to take responsibility and protect themselves and their families. Individuals need to standup to their pastors and elders of their churches. Call them out and more importantly leave the church if they adopt this blasphemous or heretical agenda.
I would not interpret the words of Elder Gong as anti AI. The LDS church is highly invested in AI. Data archiving, management and mining has always been a priority for the church. AI is perfect sauce to add to the existing software capabilities.
What concerns LDS leaders is AI being used to challenge the church and its leaders and standing. This is the same concern government leaders have. Everyone in an establishment position is worried of the powers of AI to persuade people to distrust them.
And frankly, we all should be worried about AI being used to manipulate minds. This does not mean censorship is the solution. It does invite consideration of regulations that inform people that what they are seeing is fake and artificial. I suppose that real actual politicians lying and misleading is OK, but enabling mass production of fake & artificial lying politicians is too much!
Who is okay with real politicians lying???
The plurality that keeps electing them.
I despise the left but "AI uber alles" is NOT a popular position.
Data centers driving up home energy costs is WILDLY unpopular.
If you have anything other than a very basic problem or inquiry, AI customer service chatbots suuuuuuuuck. Comcast's reset protocol for cable is the worst of the bunch. Trying to cancel a subscription like SiriusXM without being rude is damned near impossible.
Finally they still are bad at context, nuance, or even basic math. Google's AI assist tried to pin 3/4 of the year 2026 at 6 AM, but clearly it's 6 PM (if on standard time, that is). I called it out, it said I was right, then regurgitated 6AM.
It does some neat tricks, but I believe companies are very unwise to throw their lot in with AI as the be-all, end-all. It's a bland world and while I'm not against AI, I think it's rather overhyped. Especially with mainstream media pushing it -- so you should KNOW there is an agenda afoot in there somewhere.
The "church" (can we even call it that?) in the West is in dire straights. I have zero faith in them to discern anything let alone stand against this. This is hardly their biggest problem, many churches need to get back to preaching and teaching Gods word first, but I digress. These EA groups see how weak and pathetic our churches are. So this is just easy prey for them. It's disturbing nonetheless though. I will give it to these EA groups, their marketing is top notch. I think they have figured out campaigning on a few legitimate issues makes it easy to suck people in. Obviously for any shared concerns that might exist for us we are coming from an entirely different premise. We should do what we can against this movement. However I believe individuals need to take responsibility and protect themselves and their families. Individuals need to standup to their pastors and elders of their churches. Call them out and more importantly leave the church if they adopt this blasphemous or heretical agenda.
"The EA ecosystem produced Sam Bankman-Fried, not Billy Graham.""
All things weighted, even a dozen SBF are preferrable to one Billy Graham.
You can’t be serious - Billy Graham built enduring communities of faith. Sam Bankman-Fried built a fraudulent and corrupt financial enterprise.
Exactly, what Western society needs is more Billy Graham and the teaching of durable truths and less self- promoters of ephemeral comforts.
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OH MY GOD. Sorry, I just realized I was confusing Billy Graham with Jimmy Swaggart. I Apologize for my mistake.