These days, in the land of the free and the home of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, the story of the Golden Calf as described in Exodus 32 and Deuteronomy 9 keeps coming to mind. Exodus says: The Lord said to Moses,…
How We Got to AI ‘Pastors’ and Self-Help Preaching Void of the Gospel
Last week, I opened a forwarded email from a parishioner with a curious subject line: “The Gospel According to Claude.” The email linked to an article about pastors’ widespread use of Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot to aid in outlining and writing their…
Pope Leo XIV Contradicts Trump, Says AI Safety Concerns Aren’t ‘Fake News’
Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.
The medieval world had its own ‘deepfakes’ – church officials cited a fake imperial decree for centuries
With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems – a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases occurred at the start of the war in…
Landing in Paris, Pope Leo says AI must serve, not dominate humanity
Just two days after tech leaders themselves called for increased regulation of artificial intelligence at the U.N. Security Council in New York, Pope Leo XIV voiced his own concerns over the unchecked development of AI models from across the Atlantic. Leo,…
How AI has made child sexual abuse more prevalent
It all begins with a single screenshot from Instagram, Snapchat or some other social media. The photo itself is nothing remarkable — a casual selfie, a holiday memory, a sports photoshoot, a prom photo. You know the kind. Billions of…
Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader
People are turning to artificial intelligence for a seemingly unending variety of reasons. Many ask AI what to cook for dinner or how to develop a workout plan. Some even rely on AI to create school handouts or revise a…
Founding Fathers change their minds, lose their fingers in AI videos
The Founding Fathers have returned from the dead to speak once again, thanks to AI-generated videos, and their views on current events seem to align with the views of their creators. A video posted by President Donald Trump shows George…
This is not your tech oligarchs’ AI apocalypse
This week has offered up another round of predictions about the coming AI apocalypse. A former Anthropic researcher made news by publicly resigning his post and sounding the alarm, warning that some of the people building the next generation of…
What are the odds you should worry about AI?
A man resigned from his job last week, and the reason he gave should be read slowly. Jacob Coxon spent three years doing research at two of the companies building the most advanced artificial intelligence in the world. When he…
How much privacy should you expect at church?
Imagine a world where high-control pastors could monitor the movements of every staff member, church member or visitor using the power of artificial intelligence. This is the sacralized dystopia being created at Lakepointe Church in Rockwall, Texas. Of course, the…
The Questions ChatGPT Can’t Answer
Bryon Hand, an Atlanta-based Christian tech worker, was laid off last December from the payment platform Cash App. At that point, he had been working there for more than two years, first leading a design team and then switching to…