A June 10 article from Slay News claims the World Economic Forum has called for artificial intelligence to be used for a novel purpose.
“WEF Calls for AI to Rewrite Bible, Create ‘Religions That Are Actually Correct,’” reads the headline.
The article was shared more than 4,000 times on Facebook in two weeks according to CrowdTangle, a social media analytics tool.
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The article misconstrues comments made by author Yuval Noah Harari, who mentioned the possibility of AI being used to create religious texts in an interview. Harari is not an advisor or employee of the WEF, and the international organization has not endorsed the use of AI to write a new Bible.
The Slay News article gets several key facts wrong, but chief among the errors is that nobody representing the WEF has advocated for AI-generated holy texts or religions. There are no statements or articles supporting the idea on the WEF’s website and such an endorsement has not been reported by any reliable news source.
"The World Economic Forum never called for AI to rewrite the Bible," said Yann Zopf, a spokesperson for the WEF. "These are false claims to discredit the important work that the World Economic Forum does on serious global...
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