Rabbi Joshua R. S. Fixler on AI
2 quotes from Rabbi Joshua R. S. Fixler on the wall, 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include eJewishPhilanthropy.
The AI cannot create a new world, it is just a mirror that we hold up to the world we have created
From a sermon by Rabbi Joshua Fixler discussing bias in AI sentencing tools, published in eJewishPhilanthropy, 2025.
What it refers to
An AI tool used in criminal sentencing that was found to recommend harsher outcomes for Black defendants despite excluding race from its data.
Other voices
- The threat is not that algorithms will become evil, but that we might begin to trust them blindlyD.Y. Chandrachud25 May 2025
- The machine follows our commands, it executes but does not decide on its ownPope FrancisThinker25 February 2025
- AI is more than just an engineering challenge, it is also a human design problemPattie Maes13 March 2025
- There is a story here about technology, but it is really about peopleJaron LanierResearcher29 April 2025
eJewishPhilanthropyThe rehumanizing project: A Jewish response to artificial intelligence
Machines can learn, but humans can grow
From a sermon by Rabbi Joshua Fixler of Congregation Emanu El in Houston, reflecting on AI through a Jewish lens, published in eJewishPhilanthropy, 2025.
Other voices
- Artificial intelligence will never understand piety and union with GodFather Paul J. Keller30 May 2025
- A tool for the good of human beings, not to diminish them, not to replace themPope Leo XIVThinker22 June 2025
- The machine follows our commands, it executes but does not decide on its ownPope FrancisThinker25 February 2025
- The moment you treat it as a noun, you've already lostJaron LanierResearcher29 July 2025
eJewishPhilanthropyThe rehumanizing project: A Jewish response to artificial intelligence