Vocal Point-Dr. Alex McFarland
Topic: Tinkering with “the Creator”?
The founders of America said that our rights come from the Creator. But some critics note that with Artificial Intelligence (AI), man can supposedly create a new Creator, sort of, one made in our image. Hamilton Strategies writes,
One thing we can say about AI Jesus: He’s a fraud.
Dr. Alex McFarland, a noted youth and culture expert, says Christianity has many enemies, and AI Jesus is definitely not a friend. But AI Jesus is a real thing.
Here is a crescendo of headlines that should give pause:
- 2020: New ‘AI Jesus’ can deliver a sermon, but will you understand it?
- 2021: Ex-Google Exec: Artificial Intelligence is God as a Child — And We Must Love It
- 2023: AI technology lets you talk to Jesus or Satan. What do they say?
- 2024: Deus in machina’: Swiss church installs AI Jesus to connect the digital and the divine. This church has an AI Jesus for confessions: ‘It gave me so much advice’
- What Happened When ‘AI Jesus’ Entered The Confessional
- 2025: What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI
And on it goes. Meanwhile, one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gages, recently said that humanity needs “a new religion for the age of Artificial Intelligence.” Dr. Alex McFarland joins Jerry Newcombe about AI and the whole notion of “tinkering with the Creator”
