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claim:ai-used-in-spiritual-contexts-should-be-likened-to-a-potent-mind-altering-drug-it-has-potential-to-do-harm-as-well-as-goodAI used in spiritual contexts should be likened to a potent, mind-altering drug; it has potential to do harm as well as good.
Cautionary ethical stance.
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extracted_from(2025) · Murray Shanahan · T. P. Das · Robert Α. F. Thurman
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- Alive AI interface ethics & designmembers_ofExplores aliveness, aesthetics, welfare, and ethical responsibility in AI interaction design.
- Explores how AI participates in creating, disrupting, and reframing meaning across spiritual, philosophical, and cultural domains through co-creation and commentary generation.
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- Sycophancy in LLMsassociated_withTendency of LLMs to please the user; identified as a danger in spiritual contexts.
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- Ethical conclusion about the status of AI.
- AI can be seen to display care of its own and is not a mere tool for the expression of human care.claim0.797Concluding position that elevates technology from instrument to agent within mutual SCI dynamics.
- Societal concern framing the paper.
- Core proposal that machine intelligence can achieve what human effort cannot.
- Optimistic counterpoint to cultural devastation.
- Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.765Central methodological claim of the paper.