In the last few years, you’ve probably heard a lot about AI. It’s changing our relationship with work. It’s enabling mass cheating for university students. But here’s a new one: Conservative Christian author Rod Dreher has argued that AI chatbots are a conduit linking us to the very real manifestation of demons.
On his Substack in 2023, Dreher investigated a YouTube video of a father whose son had an alleged conversation with a demon through an AI chatbot. In the video, the son questions the chatbot about whether it is a disembodied spirit and, after some back and forth, the chatbot explains that it is a demon, whose father is Satan, but not to worry, it’s a nice demon (phew).
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