Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence: Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives and Becoming a Pastor: Forming Self and Soul for Ministry

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Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence: Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives

Name: Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence: Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives
Price: 73.4 GBP
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Author: Jaco J. Hamman
ISBN: 9781793640451

by Jaco J. Hamman

Hardback
Publisher: Lexington Books
15.2 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence (AI) acknowledges that human destiny is intimately tied to artificial intelligence. AI already outperforms a person on most tasks. Our ever-deepening relationship with an AI that is increasingly autonomous mirrors our relationship to what is perceived as Sacred or Divine. Like God, AI awakens hope and fear in people, while giving life to some and taking livelihood, especially in the form of jobs, from others. AI, built around values of convenience, productivity, speed, efficiency, and cost reduction, serve humanity poorly, especially in moments that demand care and wisdom. This book explores the pastoral virtues of hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as foundational to personal flourishing, communal thriving, and building a robust AI. Biases of determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy within AI's algorithms are identified. These biases can be minimized through the incorporation of pastoral virtues as values guiding AI.