I suspect the real reason for the division is that westerners have been reading stories about robots and watching films about them since the days of Asimov, and the running theme has been the danger of robots with "minds of their own", which haven't been conditioned by the First Law of Robotics. "Is there a God?" "Yes, NOW there is!"
I would not trust AI as a source of religious insights, because of my conviction that God speaks to and through human minds, and AI would be outside that chain of communication. Whereas there would be no harm in machinery being used to playback previously input or recorded messages. That's when the argument that "it's only a tool" would be applicable.
I would not trust AI as a source of religious insights, because of my conviction that God speaks to and through human minds, and AI would be outside that chain of communication. Whereas there would be no harm in machinery being used to playback previously input or recorded messages. That's when the argument that "it's only a tool" would be applicable.
