God will be God and reality will be reality no matter\despite\who cares what we think about it as individuals unless your behaviour as a result is detrimental to others.
To\for\by yourself think and do as please. Unto others the Golden Rule.

And Tony, to me the awful irony in God actually presenting Himself to us is that we will stop asking questions

We as Homo sapiens share Eve's gift of the apple, a gift where the tale of Satan inspires thinking about what we are doing in the present and in larger time scales such as days, seasons, years,
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Aware, thinking, sensing remembering, cognizant with vision and inspiration and ingenuity
Asking questions. Big ones like questioning the unexplained nature of our universe and the nature of God
One has answers resting in the reality around us and the other in the reality we have created within us

One asks "These are interesting artifacts...look hand made, wonder how old they are (A: 3.3 million years..they are in the Smithsonianlike) .......and how can we cure cancer?

The other results from questions asked for guidance dealing with life's conditions, what our circumstance, time and place brings us

I believe that if God presented him\herself all will be answered and there would be no need for questions and life's meaning will be lost

Back to the regularly scheduled AI discussion

AI ...whatever it is....will be a resource and therefore outcome has to be looked at and Michael is right and should not be too easily dismissed

Safety and security==box it and have an internet access cuttoff switch===big red button

Purpose==whatever rules you set, people with money will use it to create a means for themselves and or others if there is enough in it to make it worthwhile
Economic activity is not driven by morality, Such considerations have to be imposed on economic choices

Science follows money....in that money decides what science gets funded.
Got a problem in where AI is going? That is where to nip it in the bud

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop