Creator and Creature The Moral and Religious Implications of Artificial Intelligence
This paper analyses the psychological, moral, and religious dimensions of the relationship between human creators and intelligent artificial creatures, with particular attention to the film The Creator (2023) written by Chris Weitz and Gareth Edwards who also was the director. The film mostly builds on previous science fiction storylines and tropes without offering any groundbreaking twists. Lacking originality, the hype concerning its release mostly concerned its visuals and how it was filmed. Still, it holds particular interest as it was shot between January and May 2022. Hence, it was in the postproduction phase when ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, an event that radically changed how we converse with intelligent artifacts. It is, therefore, somewhat ironic that a review stated, “Though the visuals in “The Creator” impress, the plot falls flat on its face. For a movie that’s centered around AI, it’s ironic that ChatGPT probably could have written a better story.”
Due to the radical changes in real-life AI, this paper includes, besides a discussion of the film, insights from an experimental “interview” conducted with an AI chatbot named Claude 3.5 Sonnet, trained by the company Anthropic. In the interview, I discuss with Claude the film and more generally the relation between creator and creature.
I will first ask Claude to do a thematic analysis of the film. Then I will compare its output with the result of my analysis done before the interview. In a third step, I will formulate questions for the interview with the bot so that they pursue the most interesting differences between the human and AI analyses. By probing Claude’s identification and interpretation of themes, its latent biases, values, inhibitions, and positions might become clearer.
Due to the radical changes in real-life AI, this paper includes, besides a discussion of the film, insights from an experimental “interview” conducted with an AI chatbot named Claude 3.5 Sonnet, trained by the company Anthropic. In the interview, I discuss with Claude the film and more generally the relation between creator and creature.
I will first ask Claude to do a thematic analysis of the film. Then I will compare its output with the result of my analysis done before the interview. In a third step, I will formulate questions for the interview with the bot so that they pursue the most interesting differences between the human and AI analyses. By probing Claude’s identification and interpretation of themes, its latent biases, values, inhibitions, and positions might become clearer.
Publisert i Stories of Origin: A Workshop on literature and religion, 2024
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