

On the other hand, these machines become so complex that they’re almost omniscient-like deities in the most advanced cases. On the one hand, digital technologies make us creators, and we have this kind of godlike role in bringing these forms of intelligence to life. This possibility raises the question of how free we really are.

It’s been proposed that in the future, algorithms might be better at predicting our actions than we ourselves will be. We have algorithms that can process so much data about us that they can predict our behavior very well already. Can an intelligence that we create evolve its own goals and objectives? There’s already some evidence that machine learning models can develop strategies and solutions that their designers didn’t predict.Īnd the question of free will also comes up a lot in conversations about predictive analytics. Can humans freely choose their actions? Or are all of our decisions preordained by God? This question is emerging now in artificial intelligence. When I was studying theology in college, one of the big debates was free will.
