In my discussions with a person who is very devout to their new age spirituality and related "self-development", I was told that AI will "raise human consciousness" and "awaken humanity's consciousness to a new level". I learned about a platform called Mind Valley(?) where they have AI summits about leveraging AI and creating AI coaches for self-development and coaching (in the self-development/spiritual context).
In their definition, accepting spirit and the new age beliefs is being awaken and rises one to a new conscious level. This, by the way, is the sort that believes in manifesting, "The Secret", everything that happens is "for the greater good of all concerned", and everything is made out of love.
I come from tech and science and have a reasonable understanding of of LLMs work. I find their claims to be pretty out there, much like my opinion about rest of the new age spirituality belief system to be rather baseless. I have no doubt that it helps many, but it's not for me. I know AI is used for "processing" feelings, coaching, and therapy and just hope that they don't do more harm than help.
So what about it? You AI gurus and geeks, do you think that AI will do all that and more, that it's somehow "divine" timing that spirit is using AI to awaken more humans?
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