Anything "AI" can do, is, fundamentally, Not Worth Doing or Better Not Done: A potentially valuable lesson of this Litmus Test

One thing about the Litmus Tests of our era is that they are learning opportunities: but more emphatically they are opportunities to learn something important and especially relevant to ourselves and this era of human history. 

This is because the very success of Litmus Test issues - the large degree of (often passionate) public support they attract - makes it evident that the "tasks" of recognizing their fundamentally evil falseness is one of especially great value.  

Even when we personally happen to be largely immune to the appeal of a specific Test, we can learn valuable lessons from considering the nature of their appeal - from considering what particular (maybe distinctive) modern weakness they are probing and exploiting. 

The current dominating Litmus Test is probably the (post-November 2022) "AI" project; and the lesson comes from observing and analysing the nature of its appeal - from studying what it is about "AI" that AI-advocates focus upon or enthuse about - including both its actual capabilities, claims of capabilities, and hoped-for effects and consequences.

Each of these have different causes; but I have noticed that when it comes to the actual capabilities of post-2022 "AI"; it is apparent that:

Whatever "AI" can do, ought Not to be done. 

Either because it is not worth doing, which covers a good deal. 

Or because it is actively harmful to the human spirit that this task be automated. 

To recognize this requires that we be able to detach our-selves from the here-and-now worldly imperatives, such as making a living while dwelling in a totalitarian System that has (increasingly strongly) net-evil aims, values, and methods.  

If this can be achieved, then we notice that "AI" is actually being-used for anti-loving and anti-creative purposes. 

(And for a Christian anti-loving and anti-creative means evil: it means an opposition to the nature of divine creation.) 

I mean that "AI"-systems are being used to reduce and ("ideally") eliminate human to human, and therefore any potential for genuine inter-personal relationships. 

Instead we get automated simulation. 

And "AI" is being used to reduce and ("ideally") eliminate from tasks any potential for genuine human creativity.   

Instead we get automated simulation. 

This is the actual effect of actually-existing "AI" systems. 

And on the flip-side there is the situation that anything "AI" genuinely does do, which is not a simulation - should not be done. 

This insight can be helpful because there are many aspects of modern life that are (whether in practice, or fundamentally) unavoidable and pervasive; but which we should spiritually recognize as intrinsically un-Good, evil. 

As so often, it is the clear spiritual recognition of a reality that is necessary - and that is the proper task of a Christian; and not our personal ability practically to eliminate that which is a necessity. 

Because, often there is nothing we can do to alleviate an evil necessity. 

But we can always recognize and acknowledge that a necessity is evil - and that is our proper task.