Existential threats to human work and leadership have been expressed over intensifying human-machine communication, and the development of robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet popular texts and techno-centric approaches to AI assume a flat ontology in human-machine communication which obscures power relations governing new technologies, necessitating a bounded automation approach integrating socio-economic influences that shape AI diffusion in distinctive occupational settings. This article advances three critical lines of enquiry to interrogate abstract labor displacement propositions by contextualizing human authority and communication in spiritual work. By explicating the dynamic and relational ways in which clerics strategically manage emerging social robotics, discussion of the case of ‘the world’s first robot monk’ illustrates how organizational leaders can influence AI agents to (re)produce values and cultural realities. In the process, priests strengthen normative regulation of power by aligning epistemic knowledge shared about AI and during human-machine communication to extant understandings of collective ideals.

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工作中的有限宗教自动化：在人工智能网络中传达人类权威

人类工作和领导力面临的威胁体现在加强人机交流以及机器人和人工智能 (AI) 的发展。然而，人工智能的流行文本和以技术为中心的方法在人机通信中假设了一个扁平的本体论，这掩盖了控制新技术的权力关系，需要一种有界的自动化方法，整合社会经济影响，在不同的职业环境中塑造人工智能的传播。本文提出了三个关键的探究路线，通过将精神工作中的人类权威和交流置于语境中来质疑抽象的劳动力替代命题。通过解释神职人员战略性地管理新兴社交机器人的动态和关系方式，对“世界上第一个机器人僧侣”案例的讨论说明了组织领导者如何影响人工智能代理（重新）产生价值和文化现实。在此过程中，牧师通过将共享的关于人工智能和人机交流的认知知识与对集体理想的现有理解保持一致，加强了对权力的规范监管。