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The Need for Spiritual Discernment in the Age of AI

This is the third and final reflection in a short series on artificial intelligence.  But this post, like the others, is ultimately not about AI.  Rather, it’s about how the rise of this revolutionary technology compels us to confront deeper existential, ontological, and theological questions about who we are, and who we are becoming. AI isn’t just changing and challenging how we work or learn.  It’s exposing the fault lines… Read More »The Need for Spiritual Discernment in the Age of AI

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Not Picking A.I. Sides: How Love Holds Tension

In the May 27th New Yorker article entitled “Two Paths for A.I.”, Joshua Rothman presents what I thought was a helpful portrait of our cultural moment—one torn between apocalyptic urgency and pragmatic restraint in the face of artificial intelligence.  On one side, there’s Daniel Kokotajlo, the safety researcher turned whistleblower, who warns of a near-future in which A.I. could become superintelligent, uncontrollable, and existentially dangerous.  On the other, computer scientists Sayash Kapoor and… Read More »Not Picking A.I. Sides: How Love Holds Tension

Dust and Glory: How AI Confirms the Bible’s Most Paradoxical Truth About Humanity

Earlier this month, I had the joy of leading a workshop at the Mockingbird Conference in New York City entitled Hopeful Intelligence.  In it, we explored what it means to be people of hope in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, where the lines between creature and creator, imitation and imagination, are being tested daily. What struck me most in the days since is how AI, for all its complexity… Read More »Dust and Glory: How AI Confirms the Bible’s Most Paradoxical Truth About Humanity