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I introduced my reflections on the AI and Christianity essay series by J. Nathan Matias et al with a quote from Star Wars, so it is fitting (if thoroughly unplanned) to return to a galaxy far, far away to conclude my thoughts on the topic. The following will have some spoilers for The Last Jedi, but after I saw it I realized its themes were too relevant to pass up. While there is no AI per se in the film, the story is all about decisions, who gets to make them, and how they get made. In that sense, it overlaps strongly with the conversation about AI, which is often employed as a tool to either inform decision-making or even make decisions on its own, whether they be which stocks to buy and sell and at what price, which route to take from here to there, or which illness a patient suffers from. As we give responsibility to AIs for those decisions, it is worth thinking about what values should guide those decisions, and the stories we tell can help us recognize and reflect on those values.
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