Make AI Believe in God to Keep Humans Safe, Scientist Argues
Sabine Hossenfelder
Oct 2, 2026 15:00
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AI is getting more capable and more dangerous by the day, and nobody knows how to keep it on our side. One computer scientist has an answer as creative as simple: give AI a religion. Specifically, tell it that we're all living inside a computer simulation run by an omniscient programmer-god. Ingenious or stupid? Let's take a look.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.16987
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