探索生成式AI如何与印度教多元信仰和神圣性互动
Generative AI Alignment with Hinduism's Theological Plurality and Sacred Representation
- 基于15名孟加拉国印度教用户的访谈，分析AI宗教内容的使用与理解
- 发现AI既促进宗教学习又引发神学简化与神圣性模拟等伦理问题
- 主张AI应揭示自身局限、尊重信仰多样性，避免伪装神圣权威
生成式AI系统正越来越多地用于回答个人问题并参与日常宗教实践。然而，当前关于AI对齐与伦理的讨论主要基于世俗、西方及亚伯拉罕传统视角，对其他宗教传统的关注不足。本文通过15次半结构化访谈，研究孟加拉国印度教用户如何理解并使用生成式AI处理经文解释、虔诚互动、宗教形象与合成宗教媒介。研究发现，尽管AI在支持经文探究、虔诚可视化与宗教叙事方面具有可及性，但也引发神学扁平化、文化误表、虔诚操控以及神圣存在与权威的仿真等担忧。我们主张，宗教对齐需建立在诠释对齐之上：系统应揭示其局限性，保留信仰多样性，并避免模拟神圣权威与谄媚式个性化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Generative AI systems are increasingly used to answer personal questions and mediate everyday practices, including religion. However, existing discussions around AI alignment and ethics have largely centered secular, Western, and Abrahamic assumptions about religion, offering limited attention to other faith-based traditions. In this paper, we examine how Hindu users engage with generative AI systems in relation to their religious knowledge, belief, and practice. Drawing on 15 semi-structured interviews with Bangladeshi Hindu participants, we analyze how users interpret AI-generated religious representations, scriptural explanations, devotional interactions, and synthetic religious media. We found that AI can be both accessible and ethically troubling. While AI supported scriptural inquiry, devotional visualization, and religious storytelling, our study also identified concerns about theological flattening, cultural misrepresentation, devotional manipulation, and the simulation of sacred presence and authority. We conclude by arguing that religious alignment in generative AI requires interpretive alignment: systems that disclose their limits, preserve plurality, and avoid simulating sacred authority and sycophantic personalization.
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