We Asked Jews About AI. Here's What They Said.

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, I'm Gil Student. I'm the director of Jewish media publications and editorial communications at the OU. >> If AI writes a devar Torah, is it considered Torah? >> Uh, absolutely. I don't think there's any question about it. Uh, Torah is um comes from a certain sources uh divine sources we believe. And then the question is only the impact on you. So do you care if you're reading from a book or you're hearing from a person um it's really the same thing. Uh as as long as it's coming from a a traditional source and it's consistent with that tradition and it makes that impact on you makes you gets you thinking and gets you inspired. That's a dwar. >> Hi my name is Mindy Sable. I'm the founder of code kabuda and the head of digital platforms at Bayer. >> The human being is the only being that blank. The human being is the only being that is godly. So as we learn from the Ramal, we are each a piece of the divine and our purpose is to cleave to the divine. And although there are other somewhat sentient creatures that have existed long before AI is right or animals that we have close bonds with,

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1. 0:09Hi, I'm Gil Student. I'm the director of Jewish media publications and editorial communications at the…
2. 4:27they have there's documentation of meeting groups and chat rooms of them coordinating who's going to…
3. 8:06always available that actually results in true learning and I think we have this opportunity because…
4. 11:54part of a community feels off but the flip side is we live at a time…
5. 15:46point have figured out a mode of energy consumption that wasn't also destructive aside from fundamentally…
6. 19:34pontificating and giving out a lot of false narratives as well. >> About AI, you're saying…
7. 23:16thinkers, they say to me, "Yeah, but this one is different." So you'll pardon me if…
8. 27:01those texts, which is one of the the purpose of of Torah is to come close…
9. 30:49the towards the mountains of, you know, human interaction and language generation and it's getting there,…
10. 34:36and I think that depends on if the people implementing the technology um are doing it…

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