Emad Mostaque

You know, I'm not sure what Chinese people want China to be.

I'm not sure what people want.

And I think that it's difficult to think about what is your objective function?

How are you going to measure your life and other things?

Religion filled a lot of those kind of things, but it still does.

religion hasn't gone away.

Half the world is religious, right?

More probably.

Like you actually look at the numbers, sure, it decreases in certain areas, particularly somewhere like America, but it's going strong around the rest of the world.

And it's just growing because they have more kids than non-religious people.

Maybe that fills the gap, but how will religion transform with this technology?

Well, no, because they propagate literally.

They like procreate.

I think it could be, but then, you know, what is the nature of Christianity with AI or Islam with AI?

Islam is actually the one that's most affected by AI.

So Christianity and Shia Islam, you've got like popes, you've got Protestantism, you've got this, every single one has their own structure.

Sunni Islam is based on interpretation of texts, with the interpretation having ceased around about the 16th century because the text became too complex.

what happens when you apply ai to that and the texts are interpretable by anyone with all the context and nuance and there's no centralized authority in sunni islam which is like a billion people that's going to be very interesting what does that do to protestantism you know where you don't have necessarily a pope what does religion look like when all of a sudden you have a branch that is ai enhanced to interpret texts and to tell stories that are resonant and better

Oh gosh, there's a lot to think about there, right?

Does AI become a god?