A while back, I encountered the term "unsloppable" as a definition that work which cannot (and hopefully will not) ever be replicated or replaced by AI. A lot of the examples given were things in the physical realm, but even desk jobs in industries with mounds of regulatory compliance (which can often be contradictory; AI is terrible at deciding in these kinds of contexts). May we all aspire to work that's unsloppable!
Wow. Another insightful article I completely agree with. I love the “I don’t buy it,” statement after giving the lists of societies’ rationalizations for using such a dangerous tool.
I wish every government officials/lawmakers, teachers/students, tech “wizards” in the West (and East) would read this article and really ponder the ramifications of AI. Unfortunately you brought up an inconvenient truth most don’t want to examine. Thank you for this.
Thank you for these thoughts. I'd love to hear more on the possible consequences to spiritual formation due to growing reliance on AI. Obviously there are consequences to social formation, which deeply impacts spiritual formation. It terrifies me to consider people being 'discipled' by AI rather than brothers and sisters in Christ.
Side note: I'm taking the From Pitched to Published Cohort with the Keller Center. Collin Hansen wondered if we might actually be headed towards some kind of golden era of writing and other artistic content, as we are increasingly put off by AI slop. I pray that this will come to pass!
My choice to take a longterm sabbatical from my tech career was in part because of my existential concern about what AI was doing to the world. My instinct was to "peace out", but over the last few months I've changed my mind. AI is, at its simplest, the attempt to harness the creative intellect of the human mind - a thing which God Himself created. The impulse to transcend our human capabilities is one we've been falling into since the Tower of Babel. But underneath that impulse is something fundamentally good. God created these capacities in us to reflect His image, and He called them good. So IMHO, we apply a creation/fall/redemption interpretive framework to this development like we've done to every other before it. We look for where AI is derived from the goodness of His creation of us as His image bearers, and consider how to use what's good to fulfill the creation mandate. We recognize the way sin and a fallen world will attempt to infect and hinder this work, and choose our approaches accordingly. And we make the risen, incarnate Christ and His finished work on the cross our true north.
TLDR - I don't think we accept AI so much as we recognize and receive it as a thing that is happening, over which we exercise God-given agency and, yes, prudence in how we interact with it.
A while back, I encountered the term "unsloppable" as a definition that work which cannot (and hopefully will not) ever be replicated or replaced by AI. A lot of the examples given were things in the physical realm, but even desk jobs in industries with mounds of regulatory compliance (which can often be contradictory; AI is terrible at deciding in these kinds of contexts). May we all aspire to work that's unsloppable!
Wow. Another insightful article I completely agree with. I love the “I don’t buy it,” statement after giving the lists of societies’ rationalizations for using such a dangerous tool.
I wish every government officials/lawmakers, teachers/students, tech “wizards” in the West (and East) would read this article and really ponder the ramifications of AI. Unfortunately you brought up an inconvenient truth most don’t want to examine. Thank you for this.
Thank you for these thoughts. I'd love to hear more on the possible consequences to spiritual formation due to growing reliance on AI. Obviously there are consequences to social formation, which deeply impacts spiritual formation. It terrifies me to consider people being 'discipled' by AI rather than brothers and sisters in Christ.
Side note: I'm taking the From Pitched to Published Cohort with the Keller Center. Collin Hansen wondered if we might actually be headed towards some kind of golden era of writing and other artistic content, as we are increasingly put off by AI slop. I pray that this will come to pass!
My choice to take a longterm sabbatical from my tech career was in part because of my existential concern about what AI was doing to the world. My instinct was to "peace out", but over the last few months I've changed my mind. AI is, at its simplest, the attempt to harness the creative intellect of the human mind - a thing which God Himself created. The impulse to transcend our human capabilities is one we've been falling into since the Tower of Babel. But underneath that impulse is something fundamentally good. God created these capacities in us to reflect His image, and He called them good. So IMHO, we apply a creation/fall/redemption interpretive framework to this development like we've done to every other before it. We look for where AI is derived from the goodness of His creation of us as His image bearers, and consider how to use what's good to fulfill the creation mandate. We recognize the way sin and a fallen world will attempt to infect and hinder this work, and choose our approaches accordingly. And we make the risen, incarnate Christ and His finished work on the cross our true north.
TLDR - I don't think we accept AI so much as we recognize and receive it as a thing that is happening, over which we exercise God-given agency and, yes, prudence in how we interact with it.