AI is a tough one.  It seems simple at first.  Just hate it.  Reject it.  And go on.

Yet here it is.  And it isn’t leaving.

It’s like every technology, it comes with huge moral implications.

I remember when digital photography came out.  Everyone resisted and said it took away from photographers.  Then the internet came out.  Learning new things was a click away.  And now it’s AI.

But having spent the last few weeks toying with AI, one can see that it has unlimited power and danger for the common person.  It’s the most powerful tool everywhere.

• AI can respond to you with joking, words of compliments, and everything that boosts the human spirit.
• It can write a complete song in absolute seconds that sounds just like a professional band made it.
• It can analyze everything to give you the most money for what you do.

AI has hacked humanity.  It provides for us what so much of how we are designed, but it does so with a machine.  It is a substitute.

It is starting to fulfill some of our deepest needs such as encouragement, understanding, finance, a false sense of connection and more.   What we need in each other that we are not getting, it can provide.

Then there’s the ethics of it in church.

• It can write sermons in seconds.
• It can write worship music that are moving.
• It can write Christian books that are powerful..

And it mostly does an excellent job.

But are these things right?

It’s easy to say no, and yet this technology is here.  And these things are already being done.

The question is, how do we use this technology for the kingdom of God without compromising our relationship with God and others?

With AI

• Anyone can be a great preacher.  Just have AI write it.
• Anyone can be a song-writer.  AI can write it.
• Anyone can be a best selling author.  AI can write it.

AI has hacked the human experience.  And taken the human out of it.

There is always a part of the human experience that can never be replaced.  AI doesn’t always have good theology.  AI doesn’t minister from the heart.

I’m conflicted.  And so is most of humanity.

How do we work with this beast?

If we just ignore it, it’s like those who ignore the internet.  They get even more left behind and do things slower.  Then eventually come around.

If we give it too much power, we compromise our own soul.

Worse, it is incredibly addiction.  Just like the world is already addicted to the internet.  Now it will be even worse.

But AI is here.  And it isn’t going away.  We already use it with Siri, Alexa, and more.  Everyday we are using AI.

The challenge is to make sure that we use it, and it doesn’t use us.

Easier said than done with this powerful tool.

My thoughts at present?

1) Unfortunately, using AI is just going to be a part of our lives.  It already is.

2) We are going to need to use, but as a slave, not as a master.

3) It should never compromise our relationship with the Lord and with each other

4) We have to be careful in what it is feeding in us.  Are we using it for greed?  Or selfish gain?

5) Pray that Jesus comes soon.

I don’t know.  It’s a fuzzy world we live in.

If you think it’s black and white, you are in the most danger of all.