Jamie Metzl

Every time in our history when we've had this kind of change this big,

It's had religious and spiritual implications.

And this one will as well.

And there are some people who were like Corey Lewandowski in Silicon Valley who were saying, well, we need to have a new church of AI where we pray to AI as some kind of God.

How did that go over?

It's ridiculous.

But I think there are ways that we can use AI.

And I wanted with this AI Ten Commandments book, I wanted to show just one example.

very discreet, concrete example.

And so when I worked with AI, and this was thousands of back and forth, the original question was based on a comprehensive analysis of all of our recorded history, humans' recorded history, and all of our different religious, spiritual, and moral and ethical traditions.

What are 10 principles that if followed by everyone would lead to the greatest amounts of peace, happiness, and flourishing?

And it gave these very beautiful things.

Then there were thousands of back and forth saying, what do you mean by this?

Where does it come from?

And as we dug deeper, it was drawing on so many different traditions.

Obviously, the ones that we know, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism is a very wise tradition.

But there were some kind of very obscure indigenous traditions that had these incredible pearls of wisdom.

And it was also drawing on that, I thought, in a beautiful way.

So sign me up for all the people who are worried about the bad things AI can do.

But at the same time, there's some really incredible, exciting things that AI can do.