Chatbots taking fast food orders and AI warfare: What is our hope for a more moral future?
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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“In three years I don’t think there’s going to be any human taking an order in any drive-through in the US.” That’s according to one chief executive providing such technology. In similar news, a news-content channel on TikTok has announced “the world’s first fully AI automated news edition presented by digital avatar clones.” This rapid march toward incorporating AI into our daily lives is just one arena where our technology may be outpacing our ethics. And in a culture predicated upon situational ethics, how might Christians show the way to a more moral future?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily article podcast. Today is Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins with the |
| 0:09.2 | Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. Chatbots are taking over |
| 0:15.4 | drive-thru ordering systems at fast food restaurants. According to the chief executive of the company providing this technology to nearly 350 |
| 0:24.1 | restaurants around the country, quote, in three years, I don't think there's going to be |
| 0:28.9 | any human taking an order in any drive-thru in the U.S., end quote. |
| 0:34.0 | Meanwhile, a news content channel on TikTok has announced that it claims to be the world's first fully AI automated news edition presented by Digital Avatar Clones. |
| 0:46.1 | A commentary chat box was used at this year's Wimbledon for highlight reels published online. |
| 0:52.0 | Artificial intelligence is already taking over some tasks in |
| 0:55.6 | healthcare, and Google is melding AI technology with robots to make them smarter. With this news as a |
| 1:02.7 | backdrop, let's consider a statement made at a Hudson Institute event on July 20th by Lieutenant General |
| 1:09.2 | Richard Moore, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for |
| 1:12.5 | plans and programs. |
| 1:14.0 | Addressing the use of AI in warfare, he noted, regardless of what your beliefs are, |
| 1:18.9 | our society is a Judeo-Christian society and we have a moral compass. |
| 1:23.6 | Not everyone does, and there are those that are willing to go for the ends, regardless of what means have to be employed, and will have to be ready for that. |
| 1:32.4 | Lieutenant General Moore then asked, what will the adversary do? |
| 1:36.7 | It depends on who plays by the rules of warfare and who doesn't. |
| 1:40.6 | There are societies that have a very different foundation than ours. |
| 1:44.3 | According to General Moore, the path to using AI ethically in warfare is a very important discussion |
| 1:50.6 | and is being held at the very highest levels of the Defense Department. |
| 1:55.9 | Artificial intelligence is just one arena where our technology has outpaced our ethics. |
| 2:03.2 | We can add genetic experimentation, |
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