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- AI and the Death of Wisdom
Long before we arrive at the doomsday moment of AI aiming our nuclear missiles at human populations, humans will have surrendered to the control of the machines they made. It’s already happening. Anthropic, the company that has built the AI-assistant Claude (which, by the way, is very useful), has reported that some of its users… Read more: AI and the Death of Wisdom - AI and the Abolition of ManIN 1943, C. S. Lewis wrote a book with incredible predictive power, The Abolition of Man. He was able to predict what accelerating technology would do in the next century. And it began with his annoyance at an English textbook. Here’s how his argument unfolded. A school textbook smuggled in a philosophical claim: that statements… Read more: AI and the Abolition of Man
- AI and the Idolatry of Knowledge
One of the Bible’s promised curses is that we become like our idols. “Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them.” (Psalm 115:8) Idolatry is formative; we become like what we love. As the AI technologies burn through the job market, Christians would do well to consider if the AI… Read more: AI and the Idolatry of Knowledge - Reading 2025
5/5= Outstanding, must-read 4/5 = Great, competent, well done 3/5 = Decent, sturdy, uninspiring 2/5 = Unimpressive, easy to skip 1/5 = Avoid 27 Servants of Sovereign Joy: Faithful, Flawed, and Fruitful; Piper, John 5/5 Excellent, readable, biographies of 27 believers. Hard to choose between them, but the biographies of Judson and Paton are particularly… Read more: Reading 2025
