Is building human-level AI impermissible according to any (published) Christian opinions?
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Dr Calum MacKellar heads up the Scottish Council on Bioethics (Edinburgh, Scotland). He has written papers on Artificial Intelligence. I also attended one of the A.G.M meetings of the Council where the matter was discussed after a film was shown. It portrayed a robot with such a high level of A.I. that it fooled others into thinking this was a real human female. Fiction when the film was made, but there seems to be no denying that this is a goal of A.I. – to design human-level A.I.
The Council looks at such ethical issues from a Christian point of view.
Dr Mackellar has written a book, The Image of God, Personhood and the Embryo (SCM Press 2017) which I have read. (The Appendix includes the moral status of seven new types of embryos that can now be artificially created by scientists: Uniparental embryos; Bi-parental Unisexual embryos; Bi-parental Bisexual embryos; Multi-parental embryos; Human-Nonhuman embryonic Combinations; True hybrids and cybrids.)
He took part in the German Ethics Council (Berlin) Zoom discussion on 25 February 2021 on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Combinations, and SCHB has sold or downloaded nearly 5,800 ‘Cyborg Mind’ (New York, Berghahn Books, 2019).
I recommend that you get in touch with SCHB to get details of published Christian opinions on A.I. as this is a highly specialised field of investigation.
EDIT - additional info in response to comment request: sorry it's taken a bit more than 2 days, but here it is:
"Thank you for your email and query about whether building human-level AI impermissible according to any (published) Christian opinions?.
A developed answer can be found in the SCHB book which has just been published entitled The Ethics of Generating Posthumans. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ethics-of-generating-posthumans-9781350216587/
To summarise, however, unless the AI person is generated from the exclusive and sacrificial love of only two persons of different gender, then it would be unethical to generate any such a person from a Christian perspective, be he or she an AI or biological person.
If the generated AI is not a person but just a ‘tool’ like any other tool then this would be acceptable since it could be useful."
Dr. Calum MacKellar
Director of Research
Scottish Council on Human Bioethics
15 North Bank Street, Edinburgh EH1 2LS
Tel: 07 83 83 84 904
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