Stop Asking If AI Has a Soul. Ask What It’s Doing to Yours. | Episode 33

So today's going to be a little bit different because we're going to tackle a subject that for all of us right now in this cultural moment is very, very fresh for us, and that is AI.

So we want to have a pastoral conversation about how we interact with it.

what it's doing to us and the generation that is following.

And we're specifically interested in three major considerations.

What it means to bear the relational nature of God, and to live in creative and vocational purpose, as well as complex thinking and learning.

In other words, what it means to be human.

Come on.

So that, that's kind of the space we're going to play in today.

It might get a little unhinged.

You got to just give us a space to do it.

Cause like, I think when we talk about AI, we just got to take cheap shots.

Sometimes it's kind of fun.

So, um, and there, and the soundtrack to Terminator may be in the background.

But that's what we want to play around with today.

And, um, i think have a very very strong pastoral conversation because there's um there are real issues here yes so i do want to say that as much as we're going to have fun with this there are some very very real issues here that we need to consider

there are and some of you might be listening and you're like ai chill out like right i use chat gpt to look in my refrigerator and find out what to make And you're telling me not to do that.

That's not what we're saying.

We're talking about the concept itself, what it's doing, data now showing us what it's doing to our relationships, specifically young people.

If you're a young person, lean in.

If you are a parent with middle schoolers and high schoolers in the house, lean in.

Because we have some data on what it's doing to our relationships, our creativity, our problem solving, our thinking.

And part of our thesis is it's literally unraveling our humanity.

If that sounds hyperbolic, it's not.

I feel like any time we talk about AI, we're like that Pepe meme with Charlie Day.

Yeah,