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AI May Have Made Me an Atheist
Would you take the red pill, too?
I won’t discuss in this post the philosophical arguments for or against religious beliefs; there are plenty of treaties backing each side, and I’m not an expert on the matter.
In this article, I want to share with you how my personal experience, some of it related to my work as an Artificial Intelligence researcher for over 30 years, could have influenced the non-religious way I truly see things.
Starting from Faith
I was raised in a Catholic family in a Catholic country (Mexico).
When we were little, my mom took us to church every Sunday. My brothers and I checked all the boxes for sacraments, including Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, and so on. I even have three aunts who are nuns. If this is not a Catholic family, you tell me what it is.
My mother used to say that I was so good as a child that I’d become a Bishop later on, and she even called me affectionally “my little bishop.”
At a point during my teen years, I briefly considered the idea of becoming a Catholic priest — which is a tough call because you cannot get married.
Later, while studying for my bachelor’s degree, I found out that two of my brothers became Atheists — very radically so. It was painful to…