“In reality, the more pressing concerns are about not robot depravity but robot capacity mixed with human depravity. We have seen what happens when a mentally disturbed teenager can get ahold of a semiautomatic weapon. What happens when the same person can employ Einstein-level intelligence to build a virus? Or a chemical weapon?” - CToday
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“The dangers of AI hung heavy over Tuesday’s conference, including the faith-focused panel with evangelical, Catholic and LDS leaders.” - RNS
“Ask a chatbot about a disputed Bible verse and you may get a tidy answer. Ask America’s pastors about the AI response, and you get a warning: That tidy answer could be a real problem.” - The Baptist Paper
“In our conversation, Michael and Keith offer…. warn against using AI as a relational substitute, reflect on the difference between toil and truly human labor, and argue that we should never outsource to machines what God made us to need other people for.” - TGC podcast and transcript
“Nearly all pastors (94%) say they’re concerned about AI misinterpreting scripture, the highest level of concern among any group Barna surveyed. Just one in 10 pastors wants AI to name the ‘correct’ interpretation of a hard passage. Practicing Christians are 2.5 times as likely to want the ‘right’ answer.” - Barna
“The lawsuit comes after the site circulated a video featuring an AI-generated clip of New Mexico Supreme Court Justice David K. Thomson, depicting him announcing a ruling by the state’s high court” - CPost
“The Gospel Coalition has drawn a line in the sand on AI usage in the writing we publish. In short: We don’t want AI’s tentacles on any of the written works we publish. We want our audience to trust that what they get at TGC is human-made, human-edited, human-assessed, made in human community for other humans” - TGC
“A lot of people are thinking about AI, but I wanted to help people to think biblically about AI, to marshal the resources of the Christian faith and the Christian Bible to help us to think about this.” - TGC
“Researchers found that even though practicing Christians already use AI more than their pastors, they still want their guidance on engaging with the technology. Only a minority of pastors, around 12%, feel prepared to give guidance on using AI.” - CPost
“Scott Winters… has sued OpenAI and its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, alleging he nearly died after ChatGPT-4o gave him inaccurate medical advice during several months of what he says were manipulative conversations.” - CPost
