A Christian Response to A.I.
(The following is a brief article I submitted to my local paper's "Clergy Corner" where various pastors in my area rotate in writing articles for the community. I believe it addresses a growing concern for the church we are only beginning to recognize.) We usually identify it with two simple letters, A.I., which stands for Artificial Intelligence. For a long time, it felt like the stuff of science fiction. Either a very capable friend to assist or enemy to avoid and fear, advanced technology has often been anything but neutral or benign. The sci-fi movies often portrayed it in apocalyptic images where our own sophisticated devices and inventions eventually turned on humanity, such as in the Terminator series with its cybernetic assassins generated by the ominous seemingly all-powerful computer network Skynet. Well, these movies now seem less fiction and more real, and their reality feels just as dangerous as the films once envisioned. For ...