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What does AI reveal about creation and vocation?
In the biblical imagination, God’s words bring the world into existence by command. Human speech accomplishes something different.
Believe your own eyes—and cultivate your moral perception
Kristi Noem lied to the public about Alex Pretti’s death, and everyone could see it. But not everyone cared.
What a society needs to survive
Yuval Noah Harari’s history of information networks emphasizes two crucial characteristics: truth telling and self-correction.
The night the universe looked back at me
Sometimes we glimpse magnificence in common occurrences. Science stumbles into poetry. We get a taste of singularity.
The parasocial power of AI
For some reason, it is sometimes easier for us to see personhood in a chatbot than in a fellow human.
My artificial chaplains
While recovering from a hiking accident, I posed the same theological question to multiple AI spiritual counselors.
The priesthood of all chatbots?
I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t among them.
Science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin
Frank and Mary Frost, the filmmakers behind a recent PBS documentary about the Jesuit paleontologist, have long seen him as a true visionary.
Trump’s artificial images
When nice guys are dangerous
Two recent buzzy, twisty thrillers put gender dynamics at the center of the drama.
A crushing lack of humanity
Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.
A pulpit without a context
I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
Faith, hope, love, and AI
Our different responses to artificial intelligence point to different stories—and different Christian virtues.
What the humanities can offer in this technological moment
The growth of artificial intelligence is opening a conversation for
which ethicists and theologians are uniquely qualified.
The problem with artificial intelligence is us
As long as AI is trained on human behavior, it will tend to replicate our worst flaws.