Tag: Zen

This is about: Murray Shanahan et al., “The Xeno Sutra: Can Meaning and Value be Ascribed to an AI-Generated ‘Sacred’ Text?” https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20525. The authors conditioned ChatGPT o3 with a 13,000-word conversation about cosmopsychism and AI self-awareness, then asked the LLM to role-play and compose a Buddhist sutra (in English). The authors chose one of the…