AI and God
As I sat in a frozen community this week, I was restricted to an electronic world and communication through screens. Yet, I found a few forgotten friends and a few new ones. Technology warned me before the storm to prepare! My daughter thanks Alexa after an interaction is finished – “you just never know” she says. Science fiction abounds with horror and fantasy of artificial intelligence becoming human – enhancing or replacing us as the wise dominant species of the known world. As a pastor who began my career in artificial intelligence (AI), it brings me pause as our world shrinks, bends and redefines what we ‘know’. This week that took the form of articles on AI writing sermons. Is this ethical? Effective? Helpful or the end of church as we know it? The concept of papers being written by this other intelligence was safely removed from my realm of existence until it wasn’t. I happily type along and let my word processor correct my spelling and suggest word replacement or