Human Dignity in the Age of AI

Welcome to Christ the Center, your weekly conversation of Reformed Theology.

We're now on episode 975.

My name is Camden Busey.

As usual, I'm in Libertyville, Illinois, just on the heels of a pastor-scholars fellowship that we hosted here at the office with a bunch of friends and even got... out late with a Cubs game after a rain delay, but, uh, the few, uh, and the committed, uh, stayed all the way to the end to see the Cubs defeat the evil White Sox.

Sorry, sorry to, uh, uh, Jacob Gerber and to Joe Christman, the White Sox fans that came with us, but, uh, They left early and didn't have to see their team defeated.

So I'm excited to be back doing a podcast.

And we're continuing a series on technology and also trying to interface a little bit casually with the Pope.

His encyclical, speaking of White Sox fans, the Pope grew up in Chicago and is a White Sox fan.

I even saw someone with a Pope Leo number 14 jersey.

Another guy was dressed up as the Pope at Wrigley Field.

So interesting.

It's all coming together for us.

But we were speaking about the Pope's Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, in which he's discussing technology and artificial intelligence, which has compelled me to have several guests on the program to talk about that subject.

So I searched for some experts, and I've got some wonderful guys.

We, of course, have already published episodes with Derek Sherman.

professor at Calvin University with Sean Rittenhour, an economist who's a professor at Grove City College.

And today I'm very happy to welcome to the program for the very first time Dr. Jason Thacker, who is assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College and Southern Seminary, also a senior fellow at ERLC.

Welcome, Jason.

It's so good to meet you.

So good to have you on the program today.

Thanks for joining us.

Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Camden.

I'm really excited about this.

I've got

Jason's book here.

We're going to be featuring and spending most of our time speaking on material that's in this book, The Age of AI, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, published by Zondervan Books.

I've really enjoyed this.

It's not...

It's not textbook-y, but it has a lot of information and helpful connection points.

But each chapter kind of starts with a personal story or at least a connection from your family and that sort of stuff.