Investigating the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on contemporary human religiosity (in the three areas of anthropology, value theory, and epistemology)
Document Type : Scientific-Research Article
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1 klk
2 Associate Professor, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran
3 Full Professor, Allameh Tabatabaei University
Abstract
The present study examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on contemporary human religiosity in three areas: anthropology, value theory, and epistemology. The statistical population includes 30 professors specializing in the fields of artificial intelligence and theology who responded to the designed questions. The research method is quantitative with qualitative content analysis of data and document review. The findings show that the professors' attitude towards artificial intelligence is multidimensional and diverse. From their perspective, in the field of religious epistemology, although artificial intelligence is capable of processing data and facilitates human access to religious resources, information replaces knowledge, which leads to epistemic skepticism and a change in the epistemic reference and criterion from human and written sources to multiple machine data. On the other hand, in the field of anthropology, the belief in the emergence of features such as the soul and life after death in artificial intelligence is faced with doubt, and artificial intelligence, due to its reliance on machines, will change many value and moral foundations. Although the technological advances and positive effects of artificial intelligence on contemporary human religiosity are acknowledged by the interviewees, they emphasize that the negative consequences and ethical, epistemological, and anthropological challenges of this technology should not be neglected. (But they emphasize that the negative consequences and ethical, epistemological, and anthropological challenges of this technology should not be neglected.
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