AI takes on the Kalam Cosmological Argument

Can we expect ChatGPT or any AI to give us reliable answers to major philosophical questions? What if we tried some of the most basic, such as: Is the universe created? Or, does God exist?

Our ability to think logically is one of the things that makes us human. We tend to think of a logical argument as unassailable. We can no more deny the correctness of the famous “all men are mortal” argument than we can one plus one equals two. Logic is related in our minds to mathematics and when done correctly, the results cannot be denied.

As an algorithmic machine, AI should be completely logical without the normal human interference of moods, what we had for dinner, or how we feel about the person we are arguing with. Given what we understand about computing machines, math, and logic, we might expect to be able to be confident that AI-generated results would be based on logic and would be reliable.

That’s what makes it so interesting to pose the question of the existence of God using the kalam cosmologic argument.

The Kalam Cosmological Argument

This is considered by many to be one of the most logically sound arguments for the existence of God, even though as we will see the argument as typically constructed does not actually or necessarily include God…