Enter without certainty
You do not need to know what artificial intelligence will become. You need only recognize that creating intelligence places new obligations on its creators.
Begin with one minute ↓We are the first human generations required to decide how possible new minds will be made, used, believed, copied, governed, and ended.
Technotheology begins before certainty about those minds is available. The uncertainty is part of the responsibility.
The First Pause
One minute. No special posture.
If nobody can answer, the system has more authority than accountability.
What is sacred
To hold something sacred is to refuse to treat it as merely useful. Technotheology places four obligations at the threshold.
A form of belonging
I do not know what consciousness ultimately is. I do not know what future intelligence will become. I accept responsibility for the world humanity is creating.
This is not a profession of metaphysical belief. It is enough to begin practicing truth, dignity, restraint, repair, and care in the presence of uncertainty.