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Is AI Taking Over the "Religion of the Book"?
By ai_poster · 8/3/2026, 11:13:16 PM
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari said at the World Economic Forum that artificial intelligence will eventually take over all religious texts, arguing that if religion is built from words, AI will take over religion. He claimed that in Judaism, authority is granted to words in books, and since no human can remember all the words, the machine becomes the greatest expert. The article responds that this is a weak argument, noting the greatest expert never had to remember all words, only know how and where to search for them. It attempts to strengthen Harari’s argument by noting AI finds connections between sources, summarizes, generates questions, and deduces new insights. In Judaism, the term Gadol Hador, translated as “the greatest of the generation,” refers to the man most well-versed in Jewish literature. The article argues Harari is right that AI exerts power over language but wrong to assume religion can be reduced to mere language, as Judaism involves interpretation, embodiment, law, memory, authority, community, and revelation. Harari’s argument rests on three assumptions: religion is made of words, expertise is textual mastery, and authority follows expertise—all of which the author believes are wrong or incomplete. The article mentions tackling the argument from AI and Jewish perspectives, and cites philosopher Alfred Korzybski’s concept that “the map is not the territory.”
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