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Organized religions will embrace AI barring a civilization-level disruption.

Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross · ep#248 "Sam Altman's Attack, Amazon vs. Starlink, and What Opus 4.7 Actually Means | #248" · source

Prior probability
45.0%
Current probability
39.2%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
3/5
Signal quality
C
Resolution
pending
Window
2026-01-01 – 2028-12-31
Edges in / out
7 / 5
Tickers exposed
33

Prediction text

Organized religions will embrace AI barring a civilization-level disruption. | I would speculate that barring some some crazy left turn in civilization in the next year or two, that there are many reasons to expect organized religions to embrace uh with with certain nuances uh AI

Verbatim quote

From episode "Sam Altman's Attack, Amazon vs. Starlink, and What Opus 4.7 Actually Means | #248"
I would speculate that barring some some crazy left turn in civilization in the next year or two, that there are many reasons to expect organized religions to embrace uh with with certain nuances uh AI

Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.844
Brier
0.0341
excellent
Hits / Misses
6 / 1
of 11 resolved
Hit rate
54.5%
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)

Evidence about this node from Alex Wissner-Gross is multiplied by κ in /api/intake. Lower κ = less weight; floors at 0.10 (effectively silenced) and caps at 1.00 (full weight).

Reference class

Not linked

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Probability over time

3 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 45%2026-04-302026-04-302026-05-03
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 39.2%

Milestone chain

Pre-event signals (upstream prereqs + window checkpoints) → resolution event → downstream cascades. Status/dates update from linked nodes; re-derive nightly via scripts/ops/derive_milestones.py.
Leading chain: 5 fired ✓ · 4 pending
  1. 2026-04-24hitVatican issues formal AI policy framework
    How: Vatican publishes formal AI policy / framework — embracing AI use in education, charity, and pastoral support with ethical guardrails
    Source: Vatican issued one of world's first state-level AI frameworks 2026; Pope Leo XIV — 'embracing opportunities with courage, determination, and discernment'conf 90%
    Notes: HIT — Pope Leo XIV's Vatican AI framework issued April 2026 (Axios 4/24/26). Cautious embrace with ethical conditions = Wissner-Gross's 'embrace with nuances' framing exactly.
  2. 2026-06-01 → 2028-06-30pendingMainline Protestant denominations (UMC, ELCA) adopt formal AI policies
    How: United Methodist, Episcopal, ELCA, or Presbyterian Church USA general assembly issues formal AI ethics statement endorsing tool use with ethical conditions
    Source: USCCB / Catholic precedent already set; Protestant body responses anticipatedconf 55%
  3. 2026-04-01 → 2028-12-31pendingNo civilization-level disruption (negative-test cascade)
    How: No major civilization-disrupting event (nuclear exchange, asymmetric AI rollout banned globally, mass societal collapse) — necessary precondition for prediction's 'barring' qualifier
    Source: Wissner-Gross explicit qualifier in source quoteconf 85%
    Notes: Negative-test — prediction holds only if civilization remains intact.
  4. 2026-06-01 → 2028-12-31pendingMajor Islamic / Jewish religious authorities issue AI fatwa / responsa
    How: Al-Azhar, Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, or major Orthodox / Reform / Conservative rabbinical body publishes guidance authorizing AI use with halakhic / shari'a conditions
    Source: Pattern of Catholic engagement likely to pull broader interfaith engagementconf 50%
  5. 2026-06-01 → 2028-12-31pendingAI-mediated religious services (sermons, study, counseling) become normalized
    How: Pew or Gallup survey shows >25% of US religious adults using AI tools for religious purposes (study, prayer companion, sermon prep)
    Source: Pope Leo's January 2026 guidance against AI-written homilies indicates the practice is already widespread enough to addressconf 65%

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Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z39.2%-1.2pp
Network propagation: 40.4% → 39.2%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z40.4%-1.8pp
Network propagation: 42.2% → 40.4%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z42.2%-2.8pp
Network propagation: 45.0% → 42.2%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v1 · run 592311ef

Network propagation neighbors

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Ticker exposure

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Beneficiaries (23)

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Adverse (6)

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Prerequisites (7)

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prereqSEM_008Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025.AI
prereqSEM_0422025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream.AI/Agents
prereqSEM_012Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering.AI/Manufacturing
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Expected milestones (1)

From Sheet 17 Monitoring Triggers
Expected byDescriptionStatus
2028-12-31[Governance 2028-12] [248_026] Organized religions will embrace AI barring a civilization-level disruption.pending

Linked documents (2)

Auto-generated by cosine similarity from Polymarket / Manifold / EDGAR / GDELT
SimSourceTitleMarket probPolarityReviewedPublished
0.620manifoldWill there be a new religious movement in the USA that achieves 10,000+ followers before 2036?40%mentionspending2026-05-02
0.608manifoldWill Christian Affiliation in the United States Increase Over Five Years?24%mentionspending2026-04-25

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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  "caveats": "Barring civilization left turn",
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