How will Madhhabs deal with these kind of scenarios in the future?

I think people underestimate how good the tools that Islam has for dealing with these scenarios are.

I've been very fortunate to work on some of the papers that are being presented at Amjad in the next couple of days, actually.

And we have such a wealth of tools that allow you to kind of navigate these types of situations.

And it's really great to see.

And I can give some examples.

Like one tool is maqasid al-shari'ah.

The people who will be the safest during the age of AI are those who can communicate well.

Explain that to our viewers, please.

Yeah.

So I think there's been really, really interesting developments in the Islamic AI assistance space.

So I worked on something called Ansari.

Ansari launched three years ago.

All of a sudden, in the last six months and even in the last two weeks, we've seen the launch of alternative Islamic AI assistance.

And we've also seen the development of Islamic benchmarks that measure how accurate these systems are.

AI in many ways is going to have that level of impact on the Muslim world as it's having now in the West.

What are the sources that are kind of instinctively used, uh, within Islamic context to try to grapple with AI?

I, I think the framework that we've been touching on, this idea that it's a test, is kind of part of that framing, that AI is something given by gift to us, uh, from God, a- and we're being tested in the way that we use that.

And so really the question is how do we respond to that in a structured way? And so I, I'd say it's somewhere in the middle between those two extremes, in the sense of you have that theological basis that comes from this understanding that humanity is entrusted with the responsibility, that we have a responsibility of stewardship, and that this new thing has arrived.

And so what are the ways that we can ensure that this new arrival benefits humanity and doesn't harm humanity? And Islam is very rich in the equipment set that it has for that, uh, and something that you're familiar with given your background, uh, which is, you know, concepts like the intentions or the goals of the Sharia, the, what are called maqasid, you know, in terms of preservation of faith, preservation of life, all the way down to preservation of wealth at the bottom, and kind of this priority list of, like, what the purpose of things are.

And so I think it's, what it's trying to do is connect the spiritual aspect that we have this responsibility, that life is a test, and that we have to ensure that, you know, what happens with this technology benefits humanity and allows humanities to focus on our higher aspirations instead of being called to our base needs, and that the law and whatever laws we come up with, and Islam has a good toolkit in that regards, aligns the world in such a way that we can focus on those spiritual questions.

But it's much more means-oriented.

I mean, I know that there is some scholarship around, like, is AI sentient? But that's almost bypassed in the Islamic faith because that doesn't affect what we as humans would do with it, and there's not a single scholar I've known that has judged that AI as it currently stands is a moral agent, that it's mukallaf, right? This concept of one day all of us are gonna stand before God and be held to account for what we've done.

Hmm.

I'm using an AI model, right?

That's right.

Okay.

So let, let's, let's talk about basic terms.

So, so first of all, what do we mean by AI? Um, historically, the way we've used computers, the way that we've done it, is to give the computers very, very specific instructions.

Do A, then B, then C, right? But what's happened recently, it started really in twenty seventeen with a very, very influential paper and a new type of AI called generative AI.

Now, historically, what AI does is it, it, it, it doesn't try to follow instructions.

Like, where do these companies fit into the whole sort of AI landscape?