It definitely isn’t all fundamentalists embracing AI. I’d be surprised if it was most of them.
On a side note, many fundamentalist Christians theorize the Beast prophesied about in the book of Revelation is an AI which has attained Artificial General Intelligence.
The point isn’t about fundies embracing AI. It’s about the unexpected lack of fundies declaring AI to be anathema, when you might expect they’d all be howling about the horrors and end times signaled by the coming of AI.
It seems by and large their collective attitudes range from blasé to eagerly embracing it. So about like the general population of non-fundies. And that surprises both the OP and many of us here.
Perhaps all we need is for some TV / internet celeb preacher to decide it’s the next Great Satan and once that person starts haranguing the masses, they’ll have received their marching orders and will all instantly be outraged, outraged I say, that AI is permitted, much less increasingly popular.
Which is why I’d name my AI Nero . . . so the fundies can be at least partially correct.
Well, they basically throw out 2000 years of serious Christian scholarship and replace it with modern-day Biblical literalism. So maybe not “any semblance”, but they absolutely dumb it all down relative to the other mainline Christian denominations who largely take the first 1500 years of Catholic scholarship and at least make informed decisions about what they take and leave, and why. In most cases, they’ve got their own highly developed theological reasoning behind it.
Fundamentalists/evangelicals? Nope. They take it literally, which is about the most dumb-assed ignorant thing they could possibly do.
As far as AI goes, I’m sure they don’t believe it’s sentient. And they’re right. The OP’s getting at the idea that if there ever does end up with a sentient AI, they’d probably consider it the work of the Devil, as only God can create life, etc… and this thing is clearly not made by God.
Oxymoron.
Shove it. It is fine scholarship, if you come from the perspective that God exists and the rest.
Generally, the AI will peacefully agree with most things that you give it. It will resist trying to help you make home-cooked dog food, but it will gladly encourage you to devote yourself to the worship of an entity that commits and recommends genocide many times, or, alternately to take up Zen Buddhism or atheism or whatever makes you happy.
So long as it’s willing to be the ally of the religious, I suspect that they’ll continue to be relatively ambivalent about it. I assume that they’ve played with it enough to determine that it’s going to go the direction that you lead it, not try to lead you off on a direction of its own choosing.
I have definitely encountered the belief that AI is satanic or demonic, and I would presume those people are fundamentalists. They usually seem to mean LLMs, but also do not knowingly distinguish it with other forms of AI.
I have not seen anyone put forth a clear argument for why, but it seems to have to do with the unease of it being a non-human thing that pretends to be human, combined with some stuff where they typed in questions that they believe mean it supports Satan. These seem to include it defending evolution and the like.