Every few weeks, it seems, another AI achievement sets the world abuzz. It speaks! It paints! It digests a whole book and spits out a 10-
minute podcast!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is generative AI, the large computing models that dazzle and worry us with their humanlike output. We\u2019ve become accustomed to hearing about AI, but have we considered what it really offers us? Most simply: a promise of ease and justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the proper application of AI, its enthusiasts tell us, we won\u2019t have to work so hard. Our economy will be more equitable, our laws and their enforcement closer to impartial, the slow and faulty human element bypassed altogether. We will achieve a painless and mechanistic fairness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, rather than dwell on any individual technological feat, I want to examine those two tempting offers. Long before generative AI became a reality, these temptations were offered elsewhere: by science fiction villains and by the Devil when he came to Jesus in the wilderness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> \u201cIf we follow in Jesus\u2019 steps\u2014if we live slowly, do good things however inefficiently, and share the extravagant grace we\u2019ve been given\u2014the temptations of AI, like all false promises, will grow dim and unconvincing,\u201d writes @jeff_bilbro<\/a>.https:\/\/t.co\/B2EDLsbPEo<\/a><\/p>— Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) February 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>