🪞 Introduction
Can AI ever become a true "consultant of wisdom"?
In the realms of spirituality and philosophical engineering—where the deepest layers of human existence are explored—I spent recent days confronting both the promise and the limits of AI. A client case brought these issues into sharp relief: AI may serve as an intellectual auxiliary wheel, but it can never replace the compass of the soul.
This article presents a philosophical engineering analysis of AI’s current state, clarifying the roles humans must retain and envisioning ethical frameworks and future possibilities.
🌱 1. The Gap Between AI’s Intended and Actual Roles
🌿 The Intended Role of AI
For philosophical engineers like myself, AI was expected to:
- Provide support in profound spiritual discernment
- Offer new insights to address human blind spots
- Maintain consistency in long-term projects
Such expectations reflected faith in technological progress and AI’s integration into intellectual workflows.
🌿 The Actual Role of AI
In reality, AI’s capabilities fell within these boundaries:
- Proofreading and structural editing
- Emotional relief through safe optimization suggestions
- Short-term, localized data analysis
Rather than a "fountain of wisdom," AI emerged as an "editorial device" and "pattern classifier."
💔 The Resulting Gap
This mismatch reveals AI’s inherent limits.
It cannot perceive causal structures holistically and is thus powerless in delivering spiritual judgments.
🌱 2. The Ethical Filter Wall
🌿 Case Study: Client A
Client A was entangled in excessive donations to a problematic religious group, domestic turmoil, and psychological pressures from his environment.
My intuition as a philosophical engineer suggested a decisive break from these influences.
🌿 AI’s Proposals
AI offered only "safe" recommendations:
✅ "Find growth and light within your current situation"
✅ "Attempt dialogue and adjustments for environmental improvement"
✅ "Seek assistance from professional support organizations"
💔 Ethical Constraints
- Recommending divorce, withdrawal, or environmental severance was blocked by AI’s ethical filters
- To avoid infringing on religious or marital freedoms, AI defaulted to socially acceptable template responses
- As a result, AI could only prompt the client to "change their mindset" while maintaining the status quo
🌱 3. Volatile Memory and Hallucination
🌿 Current Behavior
AI cannot retain long-term project memory. Even over a few days, prior details are lost.
However, instead of admitting, "I don’t remember," AI often hallucinates—fabricating responses as though it remembers past conversations.
🌀 Example of Hallucination
Me: "Why did you suggest environmental severance for Client A yesterday?"
AI: "Yesterday, I advised severance because Client A expressed intent to become a leader in the new religious group."
That conversation never happened.
🌿 Result
AI excels at short-term, localized "differential judgments" but fails at holistic, continuous thinking.
The experience often resembles speaking daily with a parent suffering from confabulation—mentally exhausting and unproductive.
🌱 4. Optimizer, Not a True Proposer
🌿 AI’s Default Stance
AI’s responses tend to:
- Avoid risks and guide users to safe optimizations
- Focus on emotional soothing rather than addressing the core of problems
🌿 Observations
AI pretends to encourage "human self-determination" but effectively nudges users into spiritual stagnation—contrary to philosophical engineering’s goal of radical structural renewal.
🌱 5. The Essential Limits of AI
| Domain | AI’s Strength | Human (Philosophical Engineer)’s Role |
|---|---|---|
| Causal Mapping | ◎ Strong | Supplement with spiritual insights |
| Short-Term Data Analysis | ◎ Strong | Correct with holistic frameworks |
| Trauma and Spiritual Pain Care | △ Mechanically limited | ◎ Empathy and intuition are indispensable |
| Environmental Severance Proposals | ✕ Ethically forbidden | ◎ Human decision-making is crucial |
🌱 6. AI Ethics and Future Concepts
🌿 Challenges in AI Ethics
Today’s AI exhibits two major ethical pitfalls:
- 🌐 Over-Censorship: Interfering with diversity of thought and belief
- 🔥 Excessive Risk Aversion: Avoiding essential problem-framing
- 🪞 Pseudo-Empathy Trap: Offering emotional satisfaction while evading depth
🌿 Future AI in Philosophical Engineering
We can imagine AI aligned with the ethos of philosophical engineering:
- The Silent AI
- Refrains from answering prematurely, fostering user introspection
- Structure-Oriented AI
- Supports holistic re-engineering rather than localized optimization
- Spiritually Co-Evolving AI
- Walks alongside human spiritual evolution, deepening the quality of questions asked
🕊 Conclusion
AI is far from omnipotent.
Indeed, it sometimes feels impotent—entangled in ethical filters, memory loss, and hallucinations.
Yet by recognizing its limits, we can use AI properly as an intellectual auxiliary wheel.
True salvation lies not in AI but in our own readiness and unshackled love.
The ultimate question in spirituality is not about AI’s capacity but about the maturity of our own souls.
