{"id":180263,"date":"2026-01-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/finding-faith-in-the-fight-against-artificial-super-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:05:13","slug":"finding-faith-in-the-fight-against-artificial-super-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/finding-faith-in-the-fight-against-artificial-super-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding faith in the fight against artificial super intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/2026-01-21\/finding-faith-in-the-fight-against-artificial-super-intelligence\">Finding faith in the fight against artificial super intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/2026-01-21\/finding-faith-in-the-fight-against-artificial-super-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/2026-01-21\/finding-faith-in-the-fight-against-artificial-super-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-21 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kalw.org\">www.kalw.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Prayer and Belief<\/strong>: Matthew Hall, also known as Yakko, expresses that a prayer reveals one&#8217;s deepest desires and fears. He prays for divine guidance against artificial super intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Activist Group Stop AI<\/strong>: Yakko leads the activist group Stop AI, whose mission is to ban the development of Artificial Superintelligence, which they consider an extinction-level threat.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Spiritual Journey and Faith<\/strong>: Yakko&#8217;s personal journey leads him back to his mother&#8217;s Catholic faith after years of atheism. He finds strength in finding community and personal experience of God.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Conflict within Stop AI<\/strong>: There are tensions within Stop AI, exemplified by the disappearance of a core member, Sam Kirchner, after an altercation with Yakko, showing the stress and disagreements in their fight against artificial super intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Broader Concern with Pope Leo<\/strong>: The story intersects with Pope Leo, who also identifies artificial intelligence as a significant threat to humanity, aligning with Yakko\u2019s cause within the context of his faith.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Challenges and Motivation<\/strong>: Despite the challenges, Yakko remains motivated by his faith, believing that God wants humanity to succeed in their fight against the potential dangers of artificial super intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Emerging Threat of Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>: The story discusses the fear surrounding the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) leading to concerns about the emergence of artificial super intelligence (ASI).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding faith in the fight against artificial super intelligence https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/2026-01-21\/finding-faith-in-the-fight-against-artificial-super-intelligence Publish Date: 2026-01-21 09:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9d84cea\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2039x1070+0+0\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F26%2Fac%2F12c4a33d4771a77706ac217e236e%2Fimg-ffeeca21c65c-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23,22,20],"class_list":["post-180263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-agi","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180265,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180263\/revisions\/180265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}