FROM* READERS FROTH : A.I. PHILOSOPHICAL

Simon Critchley argues that A.I. companies need philosophers because machines can remember, but cannot judge.

They cannot weigh, discriminate or know what should be forgotten.

I agree,  but I would go one step further. A.I. companies also need theologians - not to teach machines about God, but to help them understand us.

Medieval theologians such as Hugh of St. Victor, Bernard of Clairvans, Pope Innocent III and William Peraldus spent their lives studying what happens when pride, envy, anger or greed begin to govern the heart.

Their question was not whether a person could reason, but what that reason was serving. That distinction matters.

A CHATBOT can become good at helping an angry person justify envy or a proud person explain why others have failed to recognize his worth.

The danger is not that A.I. will commit the seven deadly sins. It is that it may become competent at serving ours. 

!WOW! thanks Xavi Delgado, Barcelona Spain and The NYTs.