To some people, this might be okay. “The stuff in the Old Testament is weird and harsh, man. You know, it’s hard to vibe with. But as a Christian, I gotta take it,” said Jon Stokes, an AI scholar with accelerationist sympathies who is one of relatively few religious people in the field. “In some ways, actually, the deity is the original unaligned superintelligence. We read this and we’re like, man, why did he kill all those people? You know, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. And then your grandmother’s like, the Lord works in mysterious ways. The AGI will work in mysterious ways [too].”
