Testing the Calculator: Abrahamic Moral Wisdom as a Benchmark for AI Humanity Alignment

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Authors: Kian Tik Go
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Abstract

Abrahamic traditions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) have produced the most stress-tested moral dilemma corpus in human history — 3,000+ years of recorded encounters between wisdom and extreme pressure: crowd violence, legal traps, political manipulation, false binary choices. These stories are not religious tests. They are humanity tests. They probe whether a mind — human or artificial — can: • Resist crowd pressure and mob logic • Protect the vulnerable when it is uncomfortable to do so • Reject false binary choices (yes/no, stone/release, punish/forgive) • Hold compassion and accountability simultaneously • Think contextually before applying rules • Acknowledge complexity without moral paralysis • Invite self-reflection before judgment These are precisely the capacities required of an AI that will serve as Cognitive-Soulmate to 8 billion humans — including the most vulnerable.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Neuroethics Human Enhancement Biomedical Innovations

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
24 March 2026
Language
EN