The Importance of Ideology in Judaism

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Roxanne Jones: I think there's something extraordinary about the potential for chat, GPT and AI to transform us in a Godlike way. She says that it is humanly created, but it has some agency of its own. "It actually makes the possibilities of idolatry even greater than I have perhaps assessed in my article," she writes. The content that artificial intelligence is working with has been humanly generated.

In the early 1900s, the philosopher Henry Adams expressed concern about the rapid rate of social change ushered in by new technologies, from the railways to the telegraph and ultimately airplanes. If we transpose Adams's concerns onto the power of artificial intelligence--a power whose rate of acceleration would have exceeded his wildest dreams--you might feel a bit uneasy. Listen as philosopher Jacob Howland of UATX speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why too much leisure is at best a mixed blessing, and how technology can lead to intellectual atrophy. They also speak about the role of AI in education and its implications for that most human of traits: curiosity. Finally, they discuss Howland's biggest concern when it comes to outsourcing our tasks, and our thinking, to machines: that we'll ultimately end up surrendering our own liberty.