DECL AI NE: How the Design of AI is Eroding our Humanity

Abstract

In the race to develop Artificial General Intelligence, an assumption within the AI community is that an artificial brain that complex would naturally develop consciousness. This spectre has produced calls for a global pause while regulation catches up, because of fears about ‘the Control Problem’, or what happens if AI goes rogue. This article will look at how this problem is tackled in human design. It seems that most of the elements of our design that are salient for the moderation of our free will have not been copied into AI, because they are considered ‘junk code’. But if we are made in the image of God, these must be features, not bugs; and the Christian community is the embodiment of over two thousand years of practices designed to keep humanity on track. This has implications for where routes to solution might be found in the development of frontier AI.