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How would your faith inform your view of sapient artificial life (AI, bioengineered, etc.) were it created? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/christianity@hexbear.net

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By this I don't mean the morality of creating such a lifeform, but how your faith would inform the meaning, implications, and ethical ramifications of existing alongside such a being.

I think such a thing is a fascinating question, but when works of fiction featuring such beings incorporate Christianity at all, they tend to either 1) have the creature be a mindless monster that must be killed as an example of Why Man Shouldn't Play God, or 2) have Christians as villains who wrongly believe #1. I'm hoping to hear a different perspective, and I figured this would be the place to ask.

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

or somewhere along the line God would have to create the soul that the artificial being has.

That's an interesting idea and one that occurred to me as well. If you take the statement "only God can create life" as descriptive ("God alone is capable of creating life") rather than prescriptive ("Don't make Frankenstein's Monster"), then it's the obvious implication that follows if artificial life were to arise.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you're asking this because you want inspiration for some setting, worldbuilding, or similar, I recommend checking out /r/askapriest and just browsing the arguments there for a while. Sort by top of all time, top of the year, etc. There's always lots of weird little grey areas that bring up debates like this. Naturally most questions are about personal problems, but even those can have some discussions that will make you learn some theological lines of thought and see what kind of logic they use.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I'll check it out, thanks!