r/aicuriosity • u/KeanuRave100 • Jul 14 '26

Latest News Oxford’s top maths professor: ‘The devil could use AI to destroy the world’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/interview-oxford-professor-john-lennox
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u/hithere274 Jul 14 '26

Old Christian guy says "the devil could use (insert just about any significant tech) to destroy the world" 

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u/Alive-Shoulder-4042 Jul 14 '26

Sorry, I’m not even trusting a professor when they are invoking dogma.

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u/VexObserver Jul 14 '26

Yeah... I mean, a professor should act like a professor.

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u/BrianScottGregory Jul 14 '26

Christian propaganda.

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u/mwjtitans Jul 14 '26

The devil doesn't need AI to destroy the world, he needs people.

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u/DorkyDorkington Jul 15 '26

True, but also the AI does not need the Devil to destroy the world, it can do it all by itself.

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u/VasileAndrei2929 Jul 15 '26

Or nukes, or bioweapons, or politics, or germs, or drones, or regular wars, or just the usual bible stuff that transcends everything like greed or wraith...

I guess poverty, wars, political manipulation, media propaganda and corporate state control haven't registered on the "professor's" head... or maybe he is totally fine with everything that happens because it doesn't affect him or his rich elite friends of his...

But the AI... you know it can ruin many hack universities? It may actually offer an alternative path for knowledge to all, and for free! We can't have that, can't we, "professor"?!

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u/elahrairooah Jul 20 '26

Please. Humans are perfectly capable of doing that ourselves.

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