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Moshe Koppel: Artificial Intelligence and Torah [Prayer Re-Release]

Oct 6, 2025
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INSIGHT

Forgetting Enables Conceptual Thought

  • Having perfect recall hinders conceptual thought and analogy-making essential to creativity.
  • Moshe Koppel warns that digitized Torah risks producing detail-rich but concept-poor learning.
ANECDOTE

Backlash From Judicial Reform Links

  • Moshe Koppel described receiving hostile reactions after Kohelet's judicial-policy papers influenced public debate.
  • He emphasized policy research differs from partisan politics and that critics often hadn't read his work.
INSIGHT

AI Makes Rabbinic Texts Far More Accessible

  • AI can vastly improve textual access: OCR, vocalization, punctuation, and opening abbreviations.
  • Koppel's Dicta projects already automate digitization and contextual linking for rabbinic texts.
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