Abstract
Future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) will likely allow for a greater degree of human‐machine convergence, with machines becoming more humanlike and intelligent machinery becoming more integrated into human brain function. This will pose many ethical challenges, and the necessity for a moral framework for evaluating these challenges will grow. This paper argues that community concern constitutes a central factor in both the evolution of religion and the human brain, and as such it should be used as the organizing principle for moral evaluations of AI technologies.
Keywords
evolution, morality, community concern, artificial intelligence
How to Cite
Rossano, M., (2001) “Artificial Intelligence, Religion, and Community Concern”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 36(1), 57–75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/0591-2385.00340