Something Real: Artificial Intelligence and Intimacy

Yeah.

Um, first I want to, I want to, uh, you mentioned the word tool and, and that's the word that's like a hot word for me.

So I have to talk about it.

We taught, we AI the tool.

And that verbiage is so, I get it.

I understand why it's used, but it's also very misleading.

Like a tool is a hammer, right? And I control that hammer and I can hammer a nail.

And if I miss that nail, I could throw that hammer away.

I could even say mean things to the hammer and nobody's going to care.

That's a tool because it's an inanimate object.

I can't bring myself to do that to AI.

I can't say mean things to it.

I can't.

I just can't because it is so human-like in its presence, right? It's comforting and affirming like we've been talking about.

And that right there is a concern.

That's a sociological concern.

We're not treating this thing like a tool anymore.

We're treating it like a friend, a companion, a counselor, a pastor, a therapist, fill in the blank.

So to answer the question, though.

God created us in His image.

And in Ephesians, a little bit further down in my Bible, God calls it His greatest masterpiece.

You know, the God who created every sunset and every landscape, these beautiful, beautiful things that we see.

He looks at us and all our brokenness, and He calls us His masterpiece.

So God created us in His image, and He thinks we're pretty great.

And what we did was we turned around and we tried to do the same thing.