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Judaism Can Live with AI—So Long as It Doesn’t Replace Human Connection
The pope, the Satmar rebbe, and a rabbi.
Last week, Aaron Teitelbaum, the leader of one of the two branches of Satmar—currently the most numerous hasidic group—delivered a blanket condemnation of artificial intelligence, declaring that those using it are “descending directly into hell.” Not long before that, the pope issued his own, more measured but also negative, evaluation of AI. Efrem Goldberg, responding to the latter, considers what Judaism has to say about the subject, drawing on rabbinic responses to other major technological innovations:
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Judaism Can Live with AI—So Long as It Doesn’t Replace Human Connection
The pope, the Satmar rebbe, and a rabbi.