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Thus saith … A.I.?

When Latter-day Saints gather for General Conference twice a year to hear sermons from their top church leaders, they can rest assured that those words are coming not from computer algorithms.

So said apostle Gerrit Gong at a Nov. 5 “Organized Intelligence” conference about Latter-day Saint perspectives on artificial intelligence.

“Because A.I. cannot replace divine inspiration, nor the individual work that invites it,” Gong said, “we ask General Conference speakers not to use A.I. to create initi

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