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Could AI Ever Imitate Kindness - Rabbi Ya’akov Asher Sinclair

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AI is getting frighteningly clever. It can write poetry, compose symphonies, diagnose diseases, and produce remarkably convincing imitations of human conversation. It can even write a clever Divar Torah. Which raises an interesting question. If a computer can imitate human intelligence, [music] could it also imitate human goodness, human kindness? In Parshat Vayeira, Avraham Avinu is sitting at the entrance to his tent recovering from his bris milah, his circumcision. It's an unbearably hot day. Hashem has deliberately made the weather uncomfortable so the guests wouldn't trouble him, but Avraham is suffering. Not suffering from the heat, not suffering from pain. He was suffering because there are no