{"id":66,"date":"2025-07-27T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/ai-and-demons\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:34:41","slug":"ai-and-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/ai-and-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You may remember our &#39;demonic&#39; discussion from last summer. See&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2024\/06\/reading-now-demonic-forces.html\">Reading Now: Demonic Foes.<\/a> The comment thread runs to 61 entries, some of them excellent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Bro Joe now wants us to read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2025\/07\/27\/satanic-ai-chatgpt-gives-instructions-on-worshipping-molech-with-blood-sacrifice\/\">Satanic AI: ChatGPT gives instructions<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Another topic we ought to explore is the possibility of demonic possession of AI systems.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Richard Gallagher, M.D., &quot;The essence of a possession is the actual <em>control<\/em> of the body (never the &#39;soul&#39; or will&#39;) of a person by one or more evil spirits.&quot; (<em>Demonic Foes<\/em>, p. 80). Now AI systems do not have souls or wills of their own (or so I argue), but they do have bodies, albeit inorganic.&#0160; Might they then host demons?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Gallagher&#39;s book is outstanding. So if you think demonology is buncombe, you should study his book and disembarrass yourself of your illusions.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember our &#39;demonic&#39; discussion from last summer. See&#0160; Reading Now: Demonic Foes. The comment thread runs to 61 entries, some of them excellent. Bro Joe now wants us to read: Satanic AI: ChatGPT gives instructions. Another topic we ought to explore is the possibility of demonic possession of AI systems.&#0160; According to Richard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/ai-and-demons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AI and Demons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,93,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-demonology","category-paranormal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}