In this episode, we examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence and discuss how Christians should think through the worldview issues that come with this new technology. We also discuss what it means to be human, how our relationship with technology has changed over time, and we read AI-generated sermons.
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LINK to the Rev. Stomberg’s article on AI: https://holycommunionri.org/2022/12/02/the-ai-question/
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00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – First impressions of AI
07:00 – A definition of AI & neural networks
08:00 – AI Image generators
10:00 – Midjourney won an art competition
12:00 – AI-based assistants
13:00 – Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Artificial Intelligence
15:00 – There is nothing new about human nature
16:30 – The need to think critically about AI
17:30 – Parallels to artificial insemination
18:40 – Similarities to splitting the atom
20:00 – Defending the human person
21:00 – Our tendency to ignore negative consequences
22:00 – We should be sober-minded about technology
23:00 – Utilitarian definitions of humanity
25:00 – The pursuit of immortality
26:30 – Elon Musk’s Nueralink
28:40 – Attacks on the Imago Dei
30:30 – Impact of AI chatbots in schools
33:00 – Chat-GPT
34:00 – Captain Kirk delivers a sermon
35:20 – The worldviews of those behind the chatbots
36:00 – Experimenting with Chat-GPT
39:00 – What we can learn from the Amish
40:30 – We need to reject anything that moves us away from God
42:00 – Using technology to avoid suffering
44:00 – Generational perspectives on new technology
48:30 – Impact of technology on the spread of the Gospel
51:50 – Explaining 21st-Century ministry to St. Paul
54:00 – Sharing the Gospel is not complicated
55:15 – Gen X’s relationship with technology
59:00 – The Internet changed how we receive information
01:03:00 – Living in embodied community
01:08:00 – Problems with outsourcing our knowledge
01:11:00 – When clergy misplace their virtue
01:14:30 – The disassembling & re-assembling of the Church
01:19:00 - Conclusion
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