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January 11, 2024

Why a Group of Rabbis Banned ChatGPT—and What They Could Learn from the Printing Press

The Jewish case against tech pessimism.

This past summer, a group of prominent haredi rabbis issued a ban on the use of artificial-intelligence chatbots. Jacob J. Schacter sympathizes with the rabbis’ concerns about the dangers of these programs, but disputes the alarmist position (shared by many outside the haredi world) that AI will “transform human life beyond recognition.” He urges instead a more sober approach:

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