Reverend Says ‘Christ’s Redemption’ Is Not Limited To Humans

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  Reverend Dr Christopher Benek, an associate Pastor of Providence at the Presbyterian Church in Florida, believes religions may help AI live alongside mankind. ‘I don’t see Christ’s redemption limited to human beings,’ he told Zoltan Istvan, author of The Transhumanist Wager, in a recent Gizmodo interview. ‘It’s redemption to all of creation, even AI,’ he added. ‘If AI is autonomous, then we have should encourage it to participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes in the world.’ Reverend Benek’s statements, however, raise the question of whether AI can have a soul.

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  Artificial intelligence which is just as smart as humans could arrive in the next two decades.
  
  SpaceX founder Elon Musk famously warned such robots could spell the end for mankind likening it to 'summoning the demon'.
  
  But could religion covert AI into doing good for world? Or would spiritual beliefs in robots speed up the demise of humanity?
  
  
  
  
  Artificial intelligence which is just as smart as humans could arrive in the next two decades, experts claim. Reverend Dr Christopher Benek (right), an associate Pastor of Providence at the Presbyterian Church in Florida, believes religions may help AI live alongside mankind
  
  Reverend Dr Christopher Benek, an associate Pastor of Providence at the Presbyterian Church in Florida, believes religions may help AI live alongside mankind.
  
  'I don't see Christ's redemption limited to human beings,' he told Zoltan Istvan, author of The Transhumanist Wager, in a recent Gizmodo interview.
  
  'It's redemption to all of creation, even AI,' he added. 'If AI is autonomous, then we have should encourage it to participate in Christ's redemptive purposes in the world.'
  
  Reverend Benek's statements, however, raise the question of whether AI can have a soul.
  
  
  Reverend Benek's statements raise the question of whether AI can have a soul. Pictured is Honda's Asimo humanoid robot shaking hands during a presentation in Zaventem near Brussels
  
  Marvin Minksy, a pioneer on the field of artificial intelligence and an MIT professor doesn't see why not.
  
  'What humans have is a more complex and larger brain than any other animal - maybe a whale's brain is physically large, but it's not structurally more complex than ours,' he told the Jerusalem Post.
  
  'If you left a computer by itself, or a community of them together, they would try to figure out where they came from and what they are.'
  
  If artificially intelligent robots could have souls and be converted to religion, there are concerns that they may add to conflict around the world.
  
  Christian theologian James McGrath, writes in his essay Robots, Rights, and Religion: 'In all likelihood, if androids were inclined to be extremely liberal, they would quickly discover the selectivity of fundamentalism's self-proclaimed liberalism and reject it.

  
  
  
  If artificially intelligent robots could have souls and be converted to religion, there are concerns that they may add to religious conflict around the world
  
  
  
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