Metropolitan Tikhon announced the risk of the emergence of "intellectual idiots" due to the thoughtless use of AI at a training conference, the priest of the Russian Orthodox Church of Tikhon (Shebkonov) warned that the abandonment of "hygiene of thought" threatens rapid degradation: "We will get in the near future - I see it already - intellectual idiots. People who control artificial intelligence use it in every possible way, and at the same time they themselves degrade quickly and quickly. According to him, only those who create technologies themselves or learn to work with them develop consciously.