As a decentralized faith, Islam does not have one single approach to AI. Muslim communities are constructing norms around AI usage in religious scholarship and sermon-writing through a mix of guidance from religious leaders and emergent communal practice.
I talked to Waleed Kadous, the creator of Islamic AI assistant Ansari, about how the technology is shaping not only Islamic scholarship but our value systems and real world politics.
About Belief in the Future: Technology and religion sometimes seem like oil and water, but they’ve been crossing paths for centuries and aren’t going to stop. Hosted by DZ Kalman, Belief in the Future is a production of Sinai and Synapses. It was made with support from Templeton World Charity Foundation.
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