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Michael Broyde — AI and Jewish Law: Seeing How ChatGPT 4.0 Looks at a Novel Issue

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ChatGPT wrote 500 thoughtful words on a Jewish law question that has never been asked in 2,500 years.
Michael Broyde discusses his experiment using ChatGPT 4.0 to analyze a novel question in Jewish law—whether someone in a same-sex marriage can give a priestly blessing—despite no prior sources. He finds ChatGPT capable of reasoning from provided texts, translating Hebrew sources effectively, and producing insights comparable to a junior rabbi. The conversation expands to AI's potential in American federal courts and the future of legal reasoning.

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A serious look at how AI handles a Jewish-law question with no ready-made answer.

The episode tracks an Emory professor as he puts ChatGPT 4.0 up against a question that, by the show’s account, has not been written about in Jewish law: whether someone in a same-sex marriage can give a priestly blessing. The draw is not the headline alone.

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Can ChatGPT reason through a question Jewish law has never answered?

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