🛐 Religious traditions
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Cross-tradition coalition (Catholic, Evangelical, Islamic, Jewish) converging on "AI as tool, not replacement" from different metaphysical starting points. Theological anthropology bounds deployment; human moral standing precedes utilitarian calculation. The traditions disagree on first principles but their policy output on AI-vs-human substitution is the same.
Agents
- · Roman Catholic Church (Pontifical Academy for Life; Rome Call signatories)
- · Southern Baptist Convention Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
- · Islamic bioethics scholars and institutions (IIIT, adjacent)
- · Orthodox rabbinic responsa on AI
- · Faith-tradition-aligned critics of AI anthropomorphization (Center for Humane Technology adjacents when the critique lands in theological register)
Descriptive claims held (9)
- AI capability is accelerating along compute, data, and algorithmic axes.
- Approximately 80-83 billion land animals are slaughtered annually for food (FAO…
- Mental and neurological disorders are the leading cause of years-lived-with-dis…
- Non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular, cancer, chronic respiratory, diabete…
- Age-standardized DALY rates vary more than 3x across regions; the highest burde…
- Frontier-lab and big-tech employees have episodically resisted DoD contracts (G…
- Global life expectancy at birth rose from ~31 years in 1900 to ~73 years by the…
- Under-5 child mortality halved between 2000 and the early 2020s, from ~76 to ~3…
- The global extreme-poverty rate ($2.15/day 2017-PPP) fell from ~44% of world po…