According to Paul Kingsnorth, Artificial Intelligence is a Spiritual Progress Trap
Author Paul Kingsnorth views artificial intelligence not as an ordinary tool, but as a spiritual force that threatens spirituality and human attention.
Author and poet Paul Kingsnorth describes artificial intelligence and digitization as a progress trap and a spiritual force that represents the pinnacle of industrialization.
The Spiritual Dimension of Artificial Intelligence
Author and poet Paul Kingsnorth states that he does not view artificial intelligence merely as an ordinary productivity tool.
Kingsnorth describes artificial intelligence as a spiritual force that represents the pinnacle of historical distancing technologies such as radio, the internet, and screens.
The Clash Between Technology and Faith
Having embraced Orthodox Christianity, Kingsnorth argues that digital technology is completely incompatible with a life of faith.
He states that elements such as smartphones and the internet directly destroy human attention and the life of prayer.
The Progress Trap and the Automobile Analogy
Explaining society's dependence on artificial intelligence through the example of the automobile, the author draws attention to the concept of the progress trap.
He emphasizes that people embrace technologies for their convenience before fully understanding their long-term consequences.
A Call to Resistance Through Asceticism
Kingsnorth calls for resistance against technology through two different understandings of asceticism: the raw and the cooked.
While raw ascetics live outside the system, cooked ascetics resist the machine by drawing boundaries from within.