Kocatepe İslami İlimler Dergisi

Öz

Designing models, developing applications and producing machines that will facilitate people's lives is a form of behaviour that has been going on since its existence. The current counterpart of this behaviour is artificial intelligence, which also represents the human mind and has learning algorithms. Artificial intelligence is an important phenomenon that emerged with the development of technology, affecting life in many areas and offering opportunities. Innovative applications emerging with artificial intelligence are increasing their impact by becoming widespread in all fields from health sciences to educational sciences, from engineering to architecture, from natural sciences to production. One of the areas where artificial intelligence has made its impact felt is religion, which is as old as human history and one of the most important parts of the social structure. How religion, which guides individuals in the way they live their lives, will benefit from artificial intelligence applications in line with this mission and in what form the social reflections of these applications will emerge in practice is an important issue in terms of the relationship between religion and artificial intelligence. It is difficult to predict how artificial intelligence will develop in the future and how it will change society and the religion that interacts with society. Therefore, it is likely that the attitude to be developed towards artificial intelligence and religious attitudes will affect each other. Determining the attitudes of people who have positive attitudes and behaviours towards religion towards artificial intelligence is necessary for the future of religion. The main purpose of the research conducted in this direction is to find an answer to the question of what kind of a relationship exists between the participants' general attitude level towards artificial intelligence and the level of religious attitude, and to reveal whether the levels of attitude towards artificial intelligence and religious attitude differ significantly according to demographic variables. In this context, the sample group of the study, in which quantitative research methods were utilised, consists of 504 people, 302 women and 202 men, residing in Polatlı district of Ankara province. In the study, the "religious attitude scale" developed by Ok and the "general attitude scale towards artificial intelligence" adapted into Turkish by Kaya et al. were used. The data obtained were analysed using SPSS 22.0 statistical software. As a result of the research; it was determined that the positive attitude levels of individuals towards artificial intelligence were higher than the negative attitude levels, and that they had the highest average in the cognition dimension and the lowest average in the emotion dimension in terms of religious attitude. While no significant relationship was found between the variables of gender, age groups, marital status and monthly income status and attitude towards artificial intelligence; it was observed that there was a significant relationship between the type of profession, level of education, relationship with technological products, level of knowledge about artificial intelligence and frequency of following developments related to artificial intelligence and attitude towards artificial intelligence. In addition, while there was no significant relationship between the variables of gender, age groups, relationship with technological products, level of knowledge about artificial intelligence and frequency of following developments related to artificial intelligence and religious attitudes, there was a significant relationship between the variables of marital status, monthly income, occupation type and education level and religious attitudes. In addition, it was found that there was a low level negative relationship between the level of positive attitude towards artificial intelligence and religious attitude. There are studies on different topics related to artificial intelligence. However, there is a lack of studies to reveal the relationship between attitude towards artificial intelligence and religious attitude. The research conducted in this direction will fill an important gap in the literature and will be a source for different studies.