However, we can begin the process of constructing AIs that are coming into communion with individual humans.

Now, this has three elements to it, one element. ... the opportunity to produce what would be a perfectly personal AI, and by that I mean it’s literally the hardware is in your control and in your physical location, and it is biometrically bound to you at a hardware level, is theoretically possible economically. It’s practical. It’s practical right now.

And that AI can have a, I’m going to make two steps. One, in principle, can continue to maintain something like symmetry with what’s happening in the big centralized compute clusters. And two, this is the next move. ... most objective training data will be homogenous. It’ll be a commodity. It’ll just be part of a marketplace of data that you can train on. But that incredibly intimate training data having to do with you specifically will be not. And so the distributed training data that lives in the field of intimacy and the field of relationships between Jim and his personal AI, which is trained on him specifically and broadly holistically across him in his relationships and has that as the organizing principle by hypothesis produces a more functional, more effective AI than can be available under any circumstances by a generalized AI. ... it’s designed specifically for the purposes of being his.

And now one more piece. ...Your intimate AI also becomes the boundary. It’s your fortress between you and the infosphere. So nobody ever calls you. Everybody only calls your personal AI, which is now able to act as effectively a version of your Gmail spam bot. But now it’s yours. ... Venkatesh talked about this as being the rifle and the printing press of this revolution. And I think he’s right, by the way.

So moving back to one, what we discover is, well, what does it look like for your intimate AI to actually be able to be aligned with you? Well, what that means is that you have to be aligned with you. You have to be coherent with yourself. You have to have a soul. You have to recover your soul. When that means very practically, that means things like you have to achieve an ability to have a clarity on what your values are, what your value hierarchies are, and notice the degree to which you live according to your own values.

So this is one of the primary functions of necessity of your intimate AI would actually be in acting as something like a wisdom coach, something that would help you by necessity. In other words, for it to do its job properly, you have to have your shit together well enough for it to be able to align with something. ... And you can over time have a degree of wisdom and maturity so that you can actually orient your values and your purposes properly... And so as the essence of the intimate AI is a responsibility for supporting you and coming into that state and then to support you in living in that way. And this is what allows it to ultimately be governed by your soul. And that’s what church looks like.

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