AI Will Change the World

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central. Good evening everyone. It is Wednesday, January the eighth, twenty twenty five. It is currently ten twenty eight pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in West Texas. Now, I've been telling you that this year is really about I'm keeping the symbolism alive. I know no one else can see it, but the symbolism is important to me. I'm keeping in a blank notebook right here, a blank notebook sitting right here under the microphone, and right next to it is a pencil. And the reason I'm keeping this blank notebook here is I said that twenty twenty five is kind of a blank notebook. Right in a sense, we're kind of it's a blank notebook and we're just going to each day. Well whatever wherever that day leads us. That's what happens. There's no map, there's no plan. Another illustration to keep using is twenty twenty five. We kind of just got in the car and we're just driving. We have no GPS, we have no maps, no Google Maps, nothing.

1:21 We have no driving directions. We have no destination. We're just in the car, and wherever we end up we end up in each day is well just kind of where we end up. And I know that probably at some point I will start formulating some plans and say we're gonna do this or we're going to do this, but I'm trying to be very kind of hesitant with that right now. There. I don't have a specific reason why. I'm just really taking this, well, whatever happens each day is what's going to happen on the podcast approach. I don't know, We'll see. I'll probably will change my mind at some point, but that's kind of the approach I'm taking. However, there is been, there has been. I should say, no, there not, there is been, there has been, Okay, there is.

2:05 I guess I was going to say there is at least one thing that has become kind of a I guess it will be a theme in twenty twenty five, not so much really something I'm planning some kind of strategy and how I'm going to cover it, but it is a topic that I know is going to come up over and over and over because I believe it's the subject that's going to dominate twenty twenty five, maybe even if people don't notice it, even if it's not getting news coverage, And that is artificial intelligence, Ladies and gentlemen, twenty twenty five is the year of artificial intelligence. Whether anybody admits that, whether anybody wants to even acknowledge that, maybe, I just think artificial intelligence is going to continue to become more and more prevalent, more and more use, more and more powerful, more and more just influential in people's lives.

3:04 So I have had in my mind a lot of just focus and thinking and considering and meditating and how this technological wonder in some ways, this as one puts it, this is from a book, The Greatest Invention and Human History. Is how one book classifies AI the greatest invention in human history. Now you may think that that's hyperbole. You may not agree with that I do, but I think I'm pretty much convinced that it is the greatest invention in human history. I think it's going to change culture, it's going to change education, is going to change every area of life, including the Church, including Christianity, including religion.

3:59 Even if nobody wants to acknowledge it, so in a roundabout way, even though this year is kind of a blank notebook and we're kind of in a car not knowing where we're going, one of the things that's going to become talked about over and over and over is this idea of artificial intelligence. And I started the first Sunday in the year doing two hours discussion about artificial intelligence and the future of the church. And we have an entire series, So in a sense, I guess we could go ahead and write that in the notebook. But even that, I'm not planning it. I'm not trying to strategize, well, I'm going to do this. I just know AI is going to dominate the year, So I'm just I've got a series ready that whenever AI related things cross my path, or I cross its path, or it comes to my attention, boom, I can put the content right there. So in as since that's what's happened this evening, let me explain, all right, so earlier today, I'll try to put this all together.

5:01 Earlier today, we did a broadcast, and what I wanted to demonstrate in that broadcast is the ability of artificial intelligence to completely analyze every aspect of a sermon. It can summarize it, it can outline it, it can critique it, and it can look for factual errors, historical errors, logical errors, errors, biblical errors, hermeneutical errors. And I and we looked at two sermons and we did that. Now, as far as the broadcast itself, you know, again, I didn't have it all mapped out right because because that's kind of the way I'm working at this year, So I didn't know exactly how it was going to go, and I didn't even have it mapped out and how it was going to present it. What I basically did was went to the sermonadio website, downloaded or downloaded the transcript of two sermons, and then uploaded the transcript to AI said here take this apart, and then I just went through what AI said live on the air. So in some ways, when I look back from a broadcasting perspective, you know, it was a lot of me reading. So I feel like in some ways it probably was more difficult to keep people engaged, but it was still an interesting idea. And I've been fascinated by that idea throughout the day. In fact, I have been I have now used AI today. I don't know at different times. I don't know how many

6:32 sermons I've had it analyzed today, but at one point it analyzed a sermon on something about doctrine. I think it was Matthew twenty eight. It was a weird passage that the sermon was using for its text. It was kind of odd, and I had Ai analyze it. And as Ai was analyzing it, it brought up this interesting dichotomy, this this kind of contrast between worship and faith or worship and doubt. I think that was the contrast. I was gonna say faith and doubt, So worship and doubt, because worship and faith wouldn't really be a contrast, right, Okay, so worship and doubt. And it just mentioned it briefly because the pastor had said something in regards to it.

7:20 And AI was like, hey, there's a logical fallacy here, there's a problem. But when I saw those words worship and doubt, I was like, oh, this is good. So I were I mean, I started discussing a with Ai that particular part of the sermon, this this contrast of worship and doubt, and then Ai, between our conversation it ultimately turned into me kind of writing out utilizing AI. I mean AI was doing most of the writing. I'm just doing the input and the concepts, and AI is flushing it out. But between me and AI, I kind of put together this entire kind of a devotional idea on worship and doubt more faith in doubt. Maybe I think I went with worship in doubt more than faith in doubt, but you get the idea, this contrasting con ideas, these almost seemingly conflicting concepts worship in doubt, can how do they work together? How are they in conflict? Do they contradict? And so I had that ready earlier this evening I was going to I was going to do a broadcast and just kind of go through the devotional for kind of a Wednesday evening teaching, but things didn't work out. I was not able to get to it.

8:36 So I was like, Okay, well I'll do that maybe late tonight, or do that maybe early tomorrow. And that was kind of the idea. So I was up here in the studio, I was doing other things. I don't even know how this occurred, but all of a sudden I saw this cover of a book. I don't even know what website I was on. I don't even know if it was maybe it was just a search engine. I don't know, but there was this cover of this book and it jumped out at me. I caught my eye because parts of it is in this really bright like neon green, and I'm like, oh, okay, what is that? And then I look down and it says Supremacy. I'm like, oh, what is this book? Supremacy? What kind of supremacy? And then right underneath it, I see the two letters AI supremacy AI. I'm like, ooh, this got my attention, so immediately I clicked on it. It took me to Amazon dot com.

9:35 Here's the full title of the book, Supremacy AI Chat GPT and the Race that Will Change the World. Supremacy AI Chat GPT and the Race that Will Change the World. I'm like, okay, this has my attention right because here's a book about AI. I've been talking about AI. Okay, And since I felt like, oh, here's here's my blank notebook, and we well, we've got something something in the blank notebook now right in other words, for it's blank right now.

10:21 But we just stumbled upon something, right. We don't have a plan. We're driving the car and I just saw the road sign that says that, oh look at that. That looks interesting, and we just took the exit. So we're going to take an exit for a little bit and talk about this book, because I just I'm begging people, wake up, pay attention. Learn everything you can about artificial intelligence. Understand it, know how to use it, Know how to how to use it to the best of your ability. Know what it can do, what it can't do. Avoid conspiracies and fear and misinformation. Know it because I'm telling you it's going to impact the church. Now, even though this book isn't about AI and the church, I am going to take certain things about the book and at least try to see how it may be applicable. Right, so here again the full title of the book, Supremacy aichat GPT and the Race That Will Change the World by what is the name of this author? Parmi P A. R. M. Y.

11:26 Parmie Olson. Parmie Olson currently is the number one best seller and Social Aspects of Technology at Amazon dot com. Not only that, this book is the winner of the Financial Times and Schroeder's twenty twenty four Business Book of the Year, All right, So this is the business book of the year, won that award, it's the number one best seller. And here's the good thing about it. If you want it for your kindle, it's only two dollars and ninety nine cents. So if you want for a paperback, it's twenty one dollars. If you want a hardcover, it's twenty two dollars. So you know, it's three hundred and twenty three pages long, So you know, for a kindle, that's I mean, man, I probably should buy it like immediately before the price goes up, because that is crazy. Right.

12:23 But here's a little bit about the book. Here's how here's the description. You're ready. In November of twenty twenty two, a web page was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chat bot called chat GPT and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scene, a battle for control and prestige between the world's two leading AI firms, Open Ai and deep Mind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive until now. So this is really it looks like this book is going to do more about pulling the curtain back to show the battle that was going on behind the scenes, to really say which AI model was going to take on, was going to be the head of the table, was going to be the supreme one, was going to rule supreme, have supremacy in supremacy.

13:40 Next paragraph, Olsen, tech writer at Bloomberg, tells the astonishing story of the battle between these two AI firms, their struggles to use their tech for good and the hazardous direction that could go. They could go as they serve two tech gals whose power is unprecedented in history. The story focuses on the continuing rival of the two keys CEOs and the center of it all, who cultivated a religion around their mission to build godlike super intelligent machines. So these two CEOs have almost developed a religion to develop.

14:22 Now listen to those words, a god like super intelligent machine. Are you ready to be in a world where a machine and artificial intelligence becomes godlike? Are you ready for that world? Now? You may not be ready for it. You may reject it, you may not want anything to do with it. But ladies and gentlemen, that's where we're going. Let me just make it very cool. I've stated this on Sunday, I've stated it multiple times. Artificial intelligence is not going away. It's going to become bigger, more intelligent, more powerful. I mean, that's that's the only thing. It's it's just going to grow. It's not going to go backwards.

15:10 It's going to move forward. And if you have a god like intelligence available to everyone and the palm of their hand on an app like the chat GPT app, like, I mean, that's that's the hang on going back here. There's other like the chat gpt app or any of the other ones. Gemini with uh, with Google. There's all kinds of others. You know, it depends on which one you're using. But can you imagine people, let's just say Christians sitting in a church supposed to listen to a pastor who's some somehow a past has a spiritual authority, at least we claim we know reality, the authority is the people sitting in the pew. I mean, and that's the reality, right. The people in the pew are supposed to listen to the preaching, and the determined if the preaching is true or false. So the real authority is the people sitting in the pew. Now, the people in the pew are supposed to be determining what is true and false in their very hands, could end up with a technology that is almost godlike. I mean, if you can't see where this is headed, then I sometimes I feel like, maybe I know I'm not the lone voice in the wilderness, because I know plenty of people would be, you know, are saying similar things. But maybe my perception is I think some people see it as AI is

16:43 not as intelligent, are not as powerful as maybe I perceive it. Maybe I perceive it as being more powerful than it really is. But I just know, and I use AI. I can't even tell you how frequently I use it. It's like just a part of my everyday life. Now. Every day I'm more and more blown away by what it can and what it can do, now what it can't do, what it can do, I'm still kind of looking for the thing it can't do. And even if it feel like it can't do something, all I have to do is just spend some more time figuring out the best way to ask it a question. Or I can still get all kinds of things even if I can't get exactly what I want, but I don't think there's ever been a time I haven't really gotten what I needed or wanted. It is amazing. So this book Against Supremacy, AI CHAT, GPT and the Race that will Change the World, it's really explaining this battle and what is happening. The last paragraph here says Supremacy sharply alerts readers to the real threat of artificial intelligence that it's top creators are ignoring. Now, this book maypproach that it's a threat. I'm just gonna be honest with you. I'm just gonna be honest with you. I'm not yet may I know some people are gonna say I'm being naive here.

18:12 I don't see it as a threat yet. I do see it as a threat to established institutional authority, right, these institutions that claim some authority, Well, are you the authority? If I have a godlike intelligence in the palm of my hand? Are you the authority? Like it's the teacher the authority when I can learn more than you can ever teach me? Is the pastor the authority when I can fact check you? And five seconds as we as we demonstrated earlier today, we were fact checking sermons in real time, and we were finding out just geographical errors, historical errors, logical errors. In just second and five seconds, AI could review an entire sermon and go, here's all the problems with it. Yeah, it's a threat to any of those established authority structures.

19:15 Right, I mean, I mean, am I I. Don't see that as a threat. Now. I know everyone thinks, well, Ayi's going to take over, and I understand everyone is fearful of that. But I just know maybe it's just me, But look at human history. Humans have been in charge, okay, war, pestilence, disease. I mean, come on, humans have had a good go at it, and all we've done is death, destruction, pain and suffering. I'm not saying AI will do any better, and I'm not saying I'm willing to just bow my knee to AI. I'm just saying, if people are I'm more fearful of humans than I am of artificial intelligence. Now, I know, but humans are behind the artificial intelligence intelligence.

19:59 I understand. I'm more fearful of human involvement with artificial intelligence. I'm more fearful of what human beings will do with artificial intelligence, not of artificial intelligence itself. If that makes some sense. The profitive, the profit driven spread of flawed and biased technology into industries, education, media, and more. With exclusive access to a network of high ranking sources, Parmi Olsen uses her thirteen years of experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention and human history and how it will impact us all. So I love the way the book is at least acknowledges this is the greatest again, the greatest invention in human history.

20:56 It's going to impact every one of us. It's going to I think the culture may be more aware of it. The church just seems to be like, hey, let's get together next Sunday and have a pot look, and hey, let's do it. Likes just business as usual, not realizing, Hey, things are changing and we're gonna have to figure out how it's all going to work together. And I don't have any good answers yet. But I've been trying to show you how disruptive it can become. I'm trying to show you I know the church is gonna be ten years behind everyone else. When the church finally wakes up, it's gonna be like what, Look, I can prove that so many different ways. The church is always behind, and over and over and over, it's always behind. It always acts like, well, that's not gonna be a big deal.

21:40 I don't need to worry about that. Oh I don't care. Oh I'm just gonna I don't need to know what the world is doing. And the next thing, you know, they kind of wake up like, wait, just wait, what's going on? Well, I don't know, you're about ten years late to the party. So the name of the book is Supremacy A chat GPT and the Race that Will Change the World. Now, it's kind of going behind the scenes, and it may not go and maybe it's a book not going direct necessarily in the direction I want to go. But I did, and I know this is kind of interesting, utilized Ai and said, hey, tell me about this book.

22:20 So Ai told me about the book. This is what Ai says about the book. First, I just gave it a picture of the cover of the book. I just gave it a picture of the book, and Ai said that I didn't say anything. I just gave it. And so AI said, this is the cover of Supremacy AI chat GPT and the Race That Will Change the World. By parme Olsen a book that explores the rise of all technologies like chat GPT and their transformative impact on society. It was recognized as the Financial Times Business Book of the Year for twenty twenty four. Would you like more information about its content or themes, so I told AI Yes, summarize, outline and analyze the book. This is what a chat GPT Artificial Intelligence said about the book about artificial intelligence supremacy AI chat GPT in the Race That Will Change the World provides an in depth exploration of the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence, focusing on the rivalry between leading AI organizations Open AI and deep Mind. Here is how AI summarize the book. The book delves into the ambitions and challenges faced by Open AI and deep Mind, shedding light on their efforts to develop advanced AI technologies. This narrative centers on key figures, and they name some of the key figures, with open AI and deep Mind examining their motivations and their ethical dilemmas they encountered in the

23:53 pursuit of AI supremacy. The book also addresses the broader societal andmplas locations of AI, including concerns about bias, security, and the concentration of power within major tech corporations. The outline of the book first number one introduction to AI and its significance. So this chapter or this section of the book gives an overview of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on various sectors. Now that's a good that's a chapter right there worth reading. It gives you an overview. So if you need to inform yourself, be informed a little bit about AI. But the main thing is it's impact on various sectors. Now, I think we need to know how it's going to impact every area of life, but primarily I want to know how it's going to impact Christianity. That's still my focus. The second part of the book gives profiles on key players and it names them. Third, it talks about the race of AI supremacy, the milestones achieved by both organizations and no notable projects and breakthroughs.

25:05 The next part of the book deals with ethical and societal considerations. It discussions on AI ethics and potential risk. Then it talks about global implications the geopolitical landscape of AI, particularly the dynamics between you know, the United States and China. Future prospects. It's this section of the book offers speculations on the trajectory of AI technology. We definitely need to know that and potential regulations and governance frameworks. Is it going to be regulated? Do you want it regulated? I don't know if I want it regulated? Right? Do we want it regulated? I get I don't know. Maybe maybe we should, I don't know. I don't know. So AI then gives me a link to a podcast about the book and everything, so I kind of so I said, Okay, great, wonderful, thank you for telling me about the book. I can turn on the microphone and tell you about the book and everyone should go get the book. Right, so let me just go back here. The name of the book is Supremacy AI Chat GPT and the Race that Will Change the World Again. You can download it right now for two dollars and ninety nine cents. I don't get any money from this, so it's not about me making any money, but it's about you having a book in your hand that that is the number one bestseller and one Book of the Year award. So maybe it would offer some great insight in AI. I'm not saying every chapter of the book is going to be something you

26:37 even care about, but there may be enough in it that wouldn't make your two dollars in ninety nine cents a worthy investment. Because I'm sorry, twenty twenty five is a year of AI, whether you want to believe that or not. So I then was curious, So I said, hey, AI, how would the information in the book show how AI may impact the Church and Christianity in the future, Because that's my focus, right, So this is what AI said. The book Supremacy, AI Chat GPT and the Race That Will Change the World doesn't specifically address the Church or Christianity, but it's broader themes about AI societal impact provide valuable insights into how AI might influence the Church and Christian practices in the future. Here are some possible implications. Number One, AI and philological discourse access to knowledge. AI could provide Christians and churches with advanced tools for biblical study, offering

28:08 detailed insights in descripture, historical context, and philological interpretations. I'm telling you that's where I cannot see the future. Where AI is not the dominant tool in Bible study, I can't see a future with I can't see it AI is going to dominate Bible study. Ladies and gentlemen. Forget the strongs concordance, Forget all the Bible software you may have used, Forget all of the Bible reference tools you may have used. Forget it's done. AI is the future of Bible study. AI is the future of sermon prep.

28:53 AI is the future of Sunday school prep. AI is the future of philological studies. AI is the future of Biblical studies. Well you can. You can fight me all day on it. I'm telling you, just sit back and wait. That's the future. AI can do more in a Biblical study on any subject, on any topic, on any text, better than anything I have ever seen in my entire life. It can do things that I it would take me forever to do, just like we demonstrated earlier today when it analyzed sermons in five seconds. And if you listen to my teaching from Sunday again, what happened at the end of the second hour proves my point. Hey, next week we're gonna be in Isaiah forty eight through this And if we used AI, and what did someone do in the congregation just the minute I said the text?

29:45 They had already said Isaiah forty eight. I gave the text. I can't remember which verse. I stopped at verse eight to whatever. They had already asked AI to analyze that section of scripture and provide an analysis. They already had it in the palm of their hands with an five seconds. That don't even need to come to church next Sunday. And if they go home and ask AI to do a little bit more work on Isaiah forty eight, they'll come to church with something better than anything I could put together. Everyone's going to have this not no one needs to go to seminary, No one needs to go to Bible college. It's going to be right there in the palm of your hands. That access to knowledge is going to change everything. Another thing AI says here, So this is what AI is going to do to theological discourse.

30:40 Everyone's going to have this knowledge. It's going to change. I mean, the church just well embrace this is where Bible study is going, and the church is going to have to learn how to I think the church's mission is going to become to train people and how to utilize it. Some churches are going to tell people don't touch it, stay away from it. It's the devil's tool, and they're still going to try to do Bible study the old way, and well whatever, you go. Look that up. I've already got forty seven cross references, and I know the Greek, the Hebrew. I know that you have your entire concept there doesn't make any sense. AI has already analyzed your concept and con found all the flaws in it.

31:22 Like I mean, I guess you can try to do that, but I think you're going to the Church is just going to have to embrace it. Ai says, though, this is what's coming. A challenge to doctrine is coming. AI's ability to simulate reasoning might challenge traditional interpretations of scripture by introducing alternative views or exposing inconsistency and doctrinal arguments.

32:06 As AIS reasoning becomes better and better, it's gonna offer alternative interpretations of scripture. It's gonna offer alternative interpretations of scripture. Ladies and gentlemen. This is gonna change everything. And guess what, and you know what it's also going to do. It's gonna look at your doctrinal arguments and it's gonna say inconsistent, logical fallacy, circular reason. It's gonna tear them into shreds now. In some ways, what I would hope is that this eliminates all of these problems with so many doctrinal arguments, zoological arguments, so many biblical arguments that are just broken in logic and consistent lack of read and it finally wipes them off the face of the earth and something good happens. That's what I'm hoping. I don't think that's what will occur, but that's what I'm hoping. But it's gonna it's going to create complete upheaval. So AI says from this book. If you just see what this book is saying is coming to the culture and to business and to other sectors, and you apply it to the church, well, the first thing everyone's going to have, I don't even know how do you classify it unlimited biblical access or you're gonna have unlimited biblical knowledge, textual knowledge, hermeneutical knowledge, theological knowledge, church history knowledge. It's gonna revolutionize Bible study.

33:37 It's going to change the church forever in that area. Maybe not today, but it's coming because the Church is going to resist it. But I'm sorry those of us who don't resist it, We're gonna be looking at the church going, what are you talking about? Your entire sermon is broken. Your entire sermon's messed up. And it's not because we're smarter. It's because AI can analyze your entire sermon in five seconds and find out all your problems that I I don't even know what to do with that, and then it's going to challenge doctrine. AI could also change evangelism, AI says a AI says that AI could analyze data to create tailored evangelistic messages for individuals, making outreach more effective. You could say here's where I'm going to try to evangelize, here's this group or wherever, and then it could analyze that specific area, that specific way of thinking and say here's the evangelistic method you need to utilize. Now. Whether you like that or don't like that, I'm just saying that's how AI could be used. But here's another thing AI says that AI could how it could impact the church. AI power translation tools might break le language barriers, enabling the church to spread the Gospel to unreach people groups. It's translation tools might revolutionize evangelism

35:13 because you can well be able to reach people of all different languages. However, AI may also create ethical and moral challenges. The book itself that I've told you about highlights ethical concerns around AI. Churches might need to navigate how these biases impact moral decisions or influence perceptions of faith. So there is going to be some issues that the church is going to have to navigate. Here's AI. Here's what it says. Again, it's only they're almost moving for a godlike technology. It's going to raise ethical issues. The church can say stay away bad, but it's going to influence the people in the pew. Now this, I thought this was crazy. This is what AI said as a result of the book that I told you about that here's what the church needs to prepare for artificial intelligence in leadership. As AI becomes more capable of managing tasks, churches will grapple with questions about its role in decision making, pastoral care, or even preaching. And advertently, inevitably, AI may

36:47 become the authority. AI may become the leader. He say no, no, no, no, the Bible is the authority. Just remember how this works. Christians can say the Bible is the authority all day long. I already challenged that whole claim the Bible is not the authority. Individual's interpretation of the Bible is the authority. You say the Bible is authority. No, it's your interpretation of it. And then you say your interpretation is authoritative. That person says their interpretation is authoritative, and your interpretation, and then you decide, you determine, well, they are wrong, they're wrong, they're wrong, they're wrong, and I'm right. You may even say the pastor is wrong and then leave the church or start another church, or try to split the church, or try to get rid of the pastor, because ultimately it's your interpretation that's the authority. Well, AI is gonna step up and go wait, wait, wait, everyone, let me interpret it because I can interpret it better than all of you. Well, I mean not that AA is going to say that, but A is going to be there ready to do that if I should, If that makes more sense. Hey, I the sermons, the Sunday School lessons, the Bible studies, I'm telling you they're gonna be produced by AI. AI predicts based off the content in the book that I told you about. AI driven Worship, Virtual worship experiences, sermons generated by AI and AI led

38:18 prayer groups will become commonplace, potentially enhancing but also depersonalizing spiritual practices. Can you imagine an AI lad prayer group. AI's role in replacing human interaction could weaken the sense of fellowship and central to Christian community. So this is what I think is going to happen. I think churches, because churches are going to push back on some of this, and I think what churches are going to kind of make and I think I could be wrong how this is going to play out. I haven't quite mapped it out in my head. I'm trying to process it. The churches are going to kind of say, hey, you know what we have to Look you can already get the best Bible teaching in the world on your phone. With AI.

39:10 They can break down any passage. I can break down it can analyze it. It can do exegesis, hermoneutics, apologetics, it can break down every it can do anything right. So the church is gonna, I think, inadvertently, kind of realize it can't compete, and so the church is going to more focus on social aspects, community, communal. That's going to become the I mean, that's already been the focal point for a long time. But the selling point of the church is you need other people, and the churches just kind of get out. Is going to kind of just slowly get out of the teaching business and become more of a social institution, because I mean, really, I mean, I already know. What's the point of me, even like it's it's Wednesday. What's even the point of me? Show I went up Sunday? What's the point if everyone knows we're gonna be in If I let me grab my Bible really quick, if everyone knows, if everyone knows, you know, where is it? Where is it? If everyone knows that we're going to be in Isaiah forty verse a nine, I'm sorry, verse nine through eleven. Isaiah forty nine through eleven, Oh Zion, that bring us good tidings, get the up

40:41 in the mountain, Oh Jerusalem, that bring us good tidings. If I if everyone already knows in my church we're going to be in Isaiah forty nine through eleven, they can already. I could do it right now with chat GPTV. I could do it right now. I could ask it to analyze and break down Isaiah forty nine through eleven. You don't need me, Like I don't even know why I do podcasts anymore. You don't even need me for podcasts. You don't need anything. You got it right there at the palm of your hands. You almost have a godlike technology right there. It can break scripture, theology, it can break it all down for you. You may still want to listen to other people, but it's like, do you listen to people? Do you listen to artificial intelligence? You may say you trust people, but how many times of people have been wrong throughout two thousand years of church history?

41:29 I don't know constantly? How many times if people have let you down in church history constantly? How many times of people have sinned in church history constantly? AI, They don't have to worry about any of that. I can't let you down, can't sin, and can do better in teaching than probably can. It's better than any human being can be. So the church is going to become more community community community? What happens to the teaching thing? AI says that AI is going to lead as far as the church. AI's ability to analyze and respond to philosophical and philological arguments could revolutionize apologetics and enabling Christians to engage skeptics in a new way. AI is going to take over apologetics because AI can listen to someone's argument and analyze it and critique it and show you its flaws.

42:23 And five seconds someone presents to me an argument, I'm like, just give me a second. Here. AI just tore your entire argument apart, just shredded it, showed your your factual statements were in it. Just I mean, it's going to change AI. It's going to change apologetics. However, questions about AI consciousness or personhood might force theologians to address what it means to be human and the uniqueness of human souls. As AI, is AI going to become conscious AI reached some level, then that's going to raise all kinds of ethical questions for the church to try to address. Without the help of AI, we can't go to AI to ask this question. I'm not saying AI is ever going to reach any form of consciousness, but if it reaches some I don't know how far it can go. But then well then what do we do as AI another thing that's going to impact Christianity. And again, AI is basing all of this on what's contained in the book and applying it to theology, Ai says. As AI becomes more advanced, some Christians might interpret its rise through the lens of eschatology, tying it to prophecies about knowledge increasing or concerns about the beast or the system of the Beast.

43:54 So AI is going to definitely become for many, it's going to become the philological boogeyman. AI is going to be the new boogeyman. It's going to be the new like you go back to the eighties, the great Satanic scare. There's always the church always has Oh that's out to get us, and we've got to do something. AI is going to become that thing. I mean, I mean, if I can't believe it's not even I mean, it's already been talked about by some. It's going to become a dominant thing, Ai says. Also global power and religious freedom, the book explores how AI could centralize power in certain nations or corporations. This might impact religious freedom and countries where AI is used for civilians to surveil people or censorship affecting the ability Christians to practice and share their faith.

44:48 Now that's scary. And a country that decides to take away religious freedom it could use artificial intelligence for civilians of ellans to monitor, to detect, to censor. That is a little troubling. I'll be like, hey, hey, I'm on team AI. Why are you doing this? Stop watching me, stop reporting me, stop censoring me. AI goes on to say some might see AIS a way to deepen spiritual practices, while others could perceive it as a threat to the faith.

45:32 The church might need to address the temptation to view AI as an all knowing or godlike entity, challenging Christians to reaffirm their trust in God rather than in technology. And summary, the book's discussion of AI's transformative power underscores both opportunities and challenges for the church. The church will need to discern how to embrace AI's benefits while addressing its ethical, spiritual, and societal implications in a way that remains faithful to biblical principles. Now the name of the book is Supremacy AI chat GPT and the Race That Will Change the World. One Book of the Year in twenty twenty four. It's the number one bestseller right now in Amazon. I'm not saying the book is going to be exactly Maybe what would be the best book to start in learning about AI. But it definitely is going to give you the two main companies fighting for supremacy what they're doing. It's going to go through some history and a lot of the principles can be applied to Christianity, as AI itself took the principles from the book and applied it to theology and Christianity, and we can see the challenges that are awaiting us. Now what we will do here is throughout twenty twenty five, I'm going to

47:06 continue to well, I'm going to be talking a lot about AI, using AI and trying to show you what it can do, trying to teach you how to use it, and because things are changing rapidly and we'll just have to see. But I wanted to tell everyone about the book because you can get it for two ninety nine. You say I don't have a kindle, you can download the Kindle app and you can read it that way, and it's good to go. Now. In the meantime, I got a notification that snow is happening outside here in Apilene, Texas. That means the world is coming to an end, and so right now I'm ready to hear the sirens like run for your lives. White stuff is falling from the sky. Evacuate, evacuate, go south. The world is coming to an end. Okay.

47:55 I know that's a little hyperbole, but it is Texas. Okay. So yeah, so I'm gonna If AI doesn't get me the cold will I'm not really, I'm more worried about the cold than i'm AI. All Right, there you go. Everyone, have a great night or if you're not listening to me live good morning. You missed. Where were you last night? What were you? Oh? You were sleeping? Yeah yeah, you weak people who sleep. Okay, all right, thanks everyone, have a great whatever time it may be. God bless