India’s religious AI chatbots are speaking in the voice of god — and condoning violenceOne of the promises of religion is finding appealing answers. But answers that come from “somewhere else”. And so, you often have an ambiguous source for answers and often an agent of some sort to interpret the answers.
Why can’t this agent be ML? Well, among other reasons, humans are often more hesitant to hand out murder licenses than layered statistical models are, even though many counterexamples will probably jump to mind.