Astrological Psychology and AI

What does the current burgeoning of AI mean for the future of Huber Astrology?

Putting on my speculative forward-thinking glasses, there seem to be a number of possibilities:

Generating the Birth Chart

An AI system could conceivably, at some future point, accurately generate a Huber-style birth chart. I just tried asking Chatgpt to do this; the result is nothing like a Huber chart. Although this is clearly a long-term possibility, I suspect this is a long way off, and no immediate threat to such as MegaStar and AstroMirror.

The intriguing question: if the resulting chart was as good, who is then paying for the generation of the chart, supplanting those entrepreneurs who developed these programmes. This relates to the fundamental problem of AI, that it builds on the efforts and IPR of others without duly recognising and paying them.

Interpreting the Birth Chart

One can imagine an AI that has access to many chart interpretations and is then able to offer its own interpretation of a ‘new’ chart, building on that earlier work. Well, maybe this could be a useful aid, but there is a fundamental problem in that there is no intuitive element coming from interaction with the chart and the client(s). It is just a dead interpretation. Synthetic or machine intelligence can never exhibit this supremely human capability¹. And the AI is not paying for the IPR that was consumed in its creation.

Perhaps more significant is the fact that, being produced by a programme trained and run by a company, the AI itself is open to manipulation by the programme’s owners and funders. There will prove to be no such thing as a ‘neutral’ AI². Both natural and malicious bias will ultimately creep in.

AI as a Research Tool

Now here we are onto something. Imagine a future Bruno Huber, working with many psychological clients and their birth charts, somewhat as Bruno did in Florence with Roberto Assagioli and his clients. Here an AI tool could well have proved a great boon in organising the data and spotting patterns, all at the control of the researcher.

Conclusion

In my book, that’s 1 out of 3 for AI. Yes, it could be an excellent research tool, but it’s arguably unfair competition to chart software. And get it anywhere near clients and astrological consultants, it is open to great misuse.

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Footnotes

1. In this context, I regard synthetic intelligence and machine intelligence as synonyms of AI. ↩︎
2. The recent antisemitic rant from the Grok AI illustrates the potential problem here. ↩︎