Friday, November 23, 2018

MP3 Current Events 1

The article "AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict: Humanity is not naturally violent" from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181031080630.htm was published in October 31, 2018. The article talks about how there is religious conflicts in the world and how artificial intelligence (AI) simulated religious conflicts and scenarios. The research "was conducted by a cohort of researchers from universities including Oxford, Boston University and the University of Agder, Norway" according to the article "AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict: Humanity is not naturally violent" paragraph 5 lines 22-23. The researchers created a simulation with multi-agent AI to find out the causes of religious conflicts. They placed artificial people in the simulation and put them into groups where they expressed their religious beliefs. The researchers programmed rules in the simulated world in the artificial people to see how they interacted with each other. The results were that religious conflicts escalated when people's beliefs were challenged and/or threatened. The results also show that religious conflicts escalated when there was prejudice and bias towards minorities in communities.
I think that it is fascinating to discover how religious conflicts are created and escalated. It is imperative that we as a society know the causes for religious conflicts so that we can descarte and prevent it entirely. Conflicts like these created ruin and discourse in the lives of many. It is important that we stand against these religious conflicts or any conflict that does harm to us so that we can foster a better world that we live in. I think we should not just look away from one of the many problems we have today and should fight for the cause of world betterment.

Website to the current event:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181031080630.htm

   

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