Jamie Metzl

AI can absolutely be used to dehumanize and diminish and endanger.

And we're seeing all kinds of examples of that.

At the same time, if we use AI wisely, we can use it really well.

And we talked about my last book, Super Convergence, which was about the future of healthcare and the future of agriculture, where we can work with AI to see our bodies differently and in a more systemic way that can help us cure cancers and live healthier and longer.

So I think that we need to be careful about saying AI is good or AI is bad, because the answer is both.

And the question for us is, how do we use it?

So it's basically 10 decent human principles.

It's decent human principles drawn on all of our traditions.

And the background is I was invited to this magical place called the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York.

And I gave a big talk.

on AI and spirituality.

And I talked about how all of our religious and spiritual traditions are deeply connected to technological innovation.

Yeah, so all of our world religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,

These are all agricultural traditions.

They come very directly out of agriculture and the ways that we organize ourselves.

And a lot of the festivals that we now celebrate are based on the agricultural seasons and timelines.

And then Protestantism is directly connected to the printing press.

Had there been a Martin Luther making these claims about the problems as he saw them with Catholicism without the printing press as the way of delivering those messages, we wouldn't really have Protestantism as we have it today.

So we're experiencing AI.

It's a fundamental transformation for our society in many, many ways.