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Kyle Roth - AI and Mormon Transhumanism: Technologies of Revelation and Digital Resurrection


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In this episode of "The World We're Building," Ally sits down with PhD student, Kyle Roth. They talk about Mormonism's embrace of AI, particularly tools that make revelation and digital resurrection possible.



These concepts are described with reference to the Wilford Woodruff AI Experience, a large language model that has been trained to output answers to users' questions in a style similar to Fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff.



For more information on the topic, see Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism and Worlds Without End" by Jon Bialecki.

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