We can use A.I. for good, LDS Church says, conceding that some enemies won’t

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LDS leaders offered a hopeful, if somewhat cautionary, take on the potential for A.I. to support the church’s mission.

Apostle Gerrit W. Gong speaks about artificial intelligence to church employees worldwide from the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.

Additionally, Latter-day Saint leaders committed the church to providing attribution for A.I.-generated content when its “authenticity, accuracy or authorship” could “be misunderstood or misleading,” and to “safeguard sacred and personal information.”added, “may also offer natural language queries and prompts to help Latter-day Saints find current, accurate information from designated, grounded and approved church sources.” Apostle Gerrit W.

Latter-day Saint apostle Gerrit W. Gong urged church employees to rely on spiritual discernment and trusted sources to counteract the potential dangers of A.I.In the past, how leaders approached and talked about new technology — from radio to TV to social media — depended on individuals, and their often-evolving personal views. Articulating and promoting an official A.I. policy, Feller said, were “politically and organizationally savvy” moves.

“You can talk all day long about how it’s a tool to make things more efficient, more effective,” he said, “but there’s always the cost.” The teetotaling Latter-day Saint faith “tried to resist,” Feller said, but ultimately gave in to economic pressures. In the 1950s, it ran ads for cigarettes and spirits on church-owned KSL.

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