AI Is Coming for the Satanists

Exorcists are worried about devil worshippers using AI to expand their repertoire,

“Artificial intelligence is a great power — a force for both good and evil — and can therefore be used for devil worshipping,” said Father Luis Ramirez Almanza, a Mexican priest who runs the annual training course for exorcists.

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David Murgia, who runs Catholic Risk and Insurances Services, a research group which tracks cults, said: “Police tell us satanists are using AI to hide their content online and communicate with each other.”

First artists, and now devil worshippers in danger of being replaced by AI. I don’t care what anyone says, AI is increasingly eroding human agency–hopefully devil worshippers can throw off their LLM chains before this goes too far.

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