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‘Robots can help issue a fatwa’: Iran’s clerics look to harness AI (ft.com)
6 points by moonraker 995 days ago
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LLM's should be great at generating concordances and reference checks through vast bodies of boring literature that no one wants to read. In other words, most of the everyday clerical grade work of professional theology.

Similarly bodies of law and regulation; I'm surprised no one has shown off their "federal register" based search and "understand this for me" bot yet. the source material is vast, very well organized, and free. Probably the fact that there's paying customers available has kept such efforts quietly commercial.

I would not want to live in a society where governments can enforce desired behavior using Robots.
Have you not noted the twitter cascades of propaganda the last 10 years?

"It's time to start believing in ghost stories, you're in one"

Greetings, welcome to GodBot, how may you assist me today?

--> Have me command some Fatwas, Responsums or Dictums for you to issue

--> Interpret Religious Text For You

--> Recipe Ideas

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