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Drew Dickens

Drew Dickens

Dr. Drew Dickens is a theological anthropologist and adjunct faculty at Dallas Theological Seminary who researches how artificial intelligence is reshaping Christian spiritual formation.

Oct 5, 2026

CarlHOST
7:30
... truth that we find in the Genesis account and all the way through scripture, could it be that hard copies would be valuable to have because AI gets so smart and their worldview is so corrupted as compared to the truth of God's word? I think that's where Lee's going.
7:50
Yeah.
7:50
Uh, so the s- so we're talking about training data, and, uh, AI is, uh, the, the two, two levels of... several different levels of training data.
8:00
So, uh, how a language model, and they're all gonna be different, whether it's Claude or Grok or, you know, uh, uh, ChatGPT, they're, they've all been trained on data.
8:12
Uh, that data is so massive we can't get our heads around it, but it's, it's everything that humanity has ever created or written or sung or painted.
8:22
Um, so it's trained on all that.
8:23
[clears throat] It doesn't really have a bias going into that.
CarlHOST
10:42
Mm-hmm
23:19
How do I go forward in a discerning way because I, I'm, I'm comfortable over here, and it's been my history, and I'm used to it, and it feels so safe?
23:32
So thank you for being vulnerable.
23:33
I'll, I'll be vulnerable likewise.
23:35
I, I think the question, I think we need to reframe that as what takes up the first part of your Monday morning of your week that, that is not advancing what you feel God has called you to do this week? It might be navigating through 100 emails.
23:55
It might be navigating through 100 voicemails.
23:58
It might be there's some aspect of your day that is, again, air quotes, that, that may not be as productive kingdom-wise, um, as you would like, um, is to look at AI as a, as a, a, a, a, a thought partner, um, another assistant.
24:20
Uh, an, an, uh, uh...

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54:01
No, I said, I said one more question.

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