God, the Devil, and AI feat. Miles Klee (E323)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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People use generative artificial intelligence to troubleshoot technical problems, churn out anime-inspired images based on their personal photos, and drive university professors who teach undergrad courses to the darkest pits of despair. But are the applications of artificial intelligence limited to worldly matters? On today’s episode, we discuss how strings of words generated by mindless neural network predictions over tokenized inputs are burrowing into our very souls. First, we speak to Rolling Stone journalist Miles Klee, who recently published a fascinating investigation into people who have fallen into spiritual fantasies because of their conversations with ChatGPT. And then Annie covers how conservative author Rod Dreher sees the devil in AI chatbots. Have you heard the good news of our lord and savior: byte pair encoding tokenization? Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa /// Miles Klee on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/milesklee.bsky.social People Are Losing Loved Ones To AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/ /// Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
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0:07.0	Oh,
0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well,
0:21.6	If you're hearing this, well done.
0:34.6	You found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.6	Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode
0:38.7	323. God, the devil, and AI, featuring Miles Klee. As always, we're your host, Jake
0:46.3	Rockatansky, Annie Kelly, Julian Fields, and Travis View. In yet another major L for fans of human
0:53.6	cognition, more and more people are relying on
0:56.4	generative AI. People use artificial intelligence applications like chat GPT to plan trips,
1:02.3	draft legal documents, come up with recipes based on what's in their pantry, and assist
1:06.5	with troubleshooting technical problems. If you're a student, then you're probably also using
1:10.5	it to complete your assignments for you. But are the applications of artificial intelligence
1:15.2	limited to worldly matters? Can it, for example, help you reconnect to your divine purpose
1:20.4	in the world that has forced you to focus most of your talents and energy towards maximizing
1:24.8	your economic value? Or is artificial intelligence a false
1:28.0	profit, a digital demon that has come to perform signs and miracles so as to lead you astray?
1:34.1	Pondering these questions naturally led me to the next questions. Is the technology-destroying
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