AI, Technology, and Communication: A Christian Perspective
May 1, 2025
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: Dr. James Spencer
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 5/1/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Hello and welcome to this Thursday edition of Stand In the Gap Today. And it’s also the first day of May. Hard to believe, isn’t it? But time is moving along. And just a reminder, we need to make sure we redeem the time because it is limited. Anyway, today’s program emphasis will focus on in an extremely my opinion, relevant topic that’s not only completely reshaping our entire world, but by its very nature represents the proverbial, I’m going to put it this way, the two edged sword. And what is that? Well, that’s the advancing technology of artificial intelligence, AI on which I have spent entire past programs with expert guests in different fields and discussed in part on many other programs. But AI and its existence within what is referred to as technology is developing faster than anyone can imagine. It’s already reshaping everything that we know from communications to finance, to politics, to engineering, military strategy and military equipment and design, health, entertainment, media, and even religion.
The impacts are not fully known and without doubt, this technology connected with because it is the internet of things, that’s a name unto itself. The internet and the internet of things satellites and instantaneous communications is unlike any technology that has ever impacted humanity on one hand. On the other hand, it’s similar. So it depends and demands a serious consideration from multiple perspectives. And I’m going to say routinely lest as Christians, we have our lives shaped by it rather than as stewards of God’s creation to shape it. Now, the title I’ve chosen to frame today’s program is this AI Technology and communication, a Christian perspective. And my returning guest I’m glad to have back with me is Dr. James Spencer. He is the president of the DL Moody Center with their website@moodycenter.org. And with that, I welcome back to the program and Dr. James Spencer. James, thanks for being back again with me.
James Spencer:
Absolutely love being here. Thanks James.
Sam Rohrer:
Here’s where I would like to start here, James, in a general sense, in order that our audience can get to know you a little bit better and your ministry, would you share why you have a special interest in technology, AI as a developing technology, and particularly as it connects to communication and media, all of which we’ve had some prior discussions, but why you’re at a tie into this, how it relates to theologically and to your mission as the president of the DL Moody Center?
James Spencer:
Sure. So my interest in technology really started during my previous career. I was actually an assistant dean of online and then a vice president and academic dean over an online program at Booty Bible Institute. And so I’ve been dealing with technology and education and technology really, and discipleship for most of my career. When I moved over to the DL Moody Center, which is a separate organization from MBI, of course, we ran a program called Go Dark, Shine Bright and Go Dark. Shine Bright was a social media fasting program where we were encouraging believers to set aside their devices, set aside their social media to engage in prayer and Bible study. And that really arose out of some things that DL Moody was writing about distraction and about the way that Christians really needed to get into the word and spend time in prayer. They didn’t spend enough time in prayer.
And so we looked at it and we said, well, how do we get people to spend more time in prayer? And we realized that a lot of times our technology, the digital technologies we’re using particularly social media, we’re competing with prayer for our time and attention. And so that was really my entree into this. And as AI came out, we just continued to sort of look at this from a theological perspective as a ministry and ask the questions of how could this be used to further God’s kingdom? How can we use this to God’s glory versus what dangers does this really pose to the church? How is this going to distract from discipleship? And that’s where it ties into our ministry.
Sam Rohrer:
Alright, that’s a perfect, I didn’t know how you were going to get it all in just a couple minutes, but that was a great connection and it lays a good foundation. So let’s move now from this. I always go about starting by defining terms, let’s apply a definition to get on the same page. So our listeners are with us. Define AI and define technology.
James Spencer:
Yeah, ai, artificial intelligence is just what it says. It’s a software based system that mimics human intelligence. And I would say that it mimics a narrow scope of human intelligence, really our ability to calculate and synthesize information as well as our ability to pull different symbols together to create new and bigger symbols. So this is what happens when you ask ai, for instance, to generate a picture. They’re pulling a number of different symbols together to create that picture. So AI is really just a mimicking aspects of human intelligence and it’s a complex software-based system that mimics human intelligence. Technology is a little broader. I think when we think about technology, our go-to is to look at the screen that we’re looking at or look at the smartphone on our hands. Those are definitely forms of technology, but technology is much broader than that. I think the first technology we see in the Bible is really a fig leaf.
When Adam and Eve are naked in the garden, they realize they’re naked. What do they do? They reach for something that is going to provide a covering that’s going to extend and provide safety and provide some sense of covering over their shame in that moment. And so what do they do? They have to go outside of themselves and use something, create something that is going to perform a function that they want it to perform. And so when we think about technology in that way, we have technology all around us. Forks are technology, chopsticks are technologies, closer technologies. These are things that extend or amplify some sort of human capacity into the world.
Sam Rohrer:
Alright, good. Let’s just go a little bit further into the focus of communications. How would you compare contrast, for instance, AI technology, which deals obviously with communications and past examples, for instance of technology with communications like for instance the Telegraph or the printing press, both of which were efforts of the past to further enhance communications just like ai?
James Spencer:
Sure. I think there’s a couple of different things here. So number one is the inputs. When you’re sending a telegraph or you’re using a printing press, there’s generally a singular input that’s put into those and they reproduce that in some ways, shape or form, they transmit it. AI is doing something slightly different with those inputs. What it’s doing is it’s doing something I would say is more akin to what a traditional publisher used to do. If you think about a traditional book publisher or even a newspaper, they’re taking all of this information that they’re getting in all these different stories, all these different book ideas, all these different data points that they’re getting and they’re saying, okay, what’s relevant to deliver to our readers? And they’re deciding what’s relevant. And then as they decide what’s relevant, then they publish that and distribute it to readers, whether that’s in the form of a book or newspaper. AI does something very similar to that, taking massive amounts of information and citing what’s relevant and delivering that to the end user.
Sam Rohrer:
Alright, and with that, that’s great ladies and gentlemen, we’ll go further into this because again, I think you’re going to enjoy the program that we’re laying out today. Stay with us. We’ll be back in just a moment. The theme is this, AI technology and communication a Christian perspective. My special guest is the president of the DL Moody Center. Dr. James Spencer, if you’re just joining us, thank you for being a part of the program. Our theme today is this AI technology and communications. It’s something all of you who are listening to me right now are involved with to one degree or another. And believe it or not, you may be very much aware of it, or on the other hand, you may be very little aware of it, but it is shaping this matter of ai and technology has shaped our world and shapes the way frankly we live and live in this world.
My special guest is Dr. James Spencer. He is the president of the DL Moody Center and they have a website@moodycenter.org. And if again, if you didn’t catch the first set, try to pick it up and listen to it because James expresses his connection to technology, how it connects with the mission of the Moody Center and so forth. Now that being said, James, in an article that you wrote on the general theme that we’re considering today, you entitled it in part. Here’s part of the title. I didn’t give the whole thing, but it says we are always the problem. And then from a Christian perspective in the age of ai, and then you made this statement, it started out it was actually very good. You said this is artificial intelligence, a civilization killer. Second question, how should Christians think about ai? And that’s what we’re doing here today.
But then you wanted to say this is that it seems clear that there are upsides and downsides to ai, artificial intelligence, and the notion of progress that tends to undergird technological advancement. Alright, now then you proceeded to consider a number of good questions, a couple of which I’d like to consider now in this segment. But in laying out your premise, you stated this further, you said this still in light of those things we should be slow to ring the apocalyptic alarm bell. Now it’s not to say part of what you’re saying, that is not to say that AI is some neutral tool. Then you say, I suspect that the move toward AI will have consequences both positive and negative. Then in your statement you said, now I want to go here. We should be slow to ring the apocalyptic alarm bell, but I’m going to read into this. You didn’t say that we shouldn’t ring an alarm bell and you didn’t say even to not mention the potential of apocalyptic, but that AI will likely present both positive and negative consequences. And I agree with that. Now here’s my question. Please explain what is involved in AI technology that is worthy of sounding an alarm bell, but you were careful to say, but stopping just short at least at the moment of ringing the apocalyptic alarm bell.
James Spencer:
Yeah, I think when I think about ai, what I get concerned with is the loss of human autonomy, responsibility and accountability. So in almost any other field that we look at, if wrong information were presented, let’s say we, someone would be accountable for that. We would know who’s presenting that wrong information. We would understand how to go about correcting that. We could determine whether or not that wrong information was put out intentionally or whether it was an accident and we could put safeguards in place, figure out how to keep it from happening again. Let’s say with ai, we very seldom have that. There’s no real accountability for ai. And so we’re interacting with this rather impressive piece of software. It’s giving us answers, it’s sorting information for us, it’s determining what is relevant for us and we don’t really have a lot of ways to hold it accountable.
And so I think when I think about ai, it’s that sense of we are losing some sense of autonomy here. We’re losing some sense of accountability and responsibility here. And so when we look at the downsides of ai, to me, they’re almost all going to be related to that. They’re going to be related to this tendency that we have that humans have. And this is where I go to, we are always the problem. We are going to tend to say, if I can get more efficient information, that’s going to be more important than getting more accurate information. If I can get more efficient information, that’s going to be more important than me doing the work to find the information. Over a longer period of time, we are getting lazier. And so when I look at AI’s downside, it really has to do with our tendencies as opposed to the technology itself. Now, there are certain things like privacy issues and the use of data and all those kind of fun things that we could talk about. Those are obviously dangers and I would say that those could get into more apocalyptic speculation if we really wanted to. But for the moment, what we’re really dealing with is an amped up communication system that is synthesizing information for us. And it’s largely doing that in an anonymous way that resists accountability.
Sam Rohrer:
And I think that’s perfect. I didn’t know what you were going to say on that, but in my investigation of ai, I have gone and I’ve been asking AI to respond to questions. And in fact, as we talk about, it’s not a matter of if a person has a worldview, it’s which worldview and all it comes down to, they have the biblical worldview that God is, there’s such a thing as sin and there is all that or there is nothing. That’s what it is. And AI described itself to us after much investigation and coming back with it, they said they have a humanistic worldview. They sometimes agree with the Bible, they sometimes don’t, but they’re captive to their programmers because it is an algorithm software as you talked about, but they are not programmed to go to the point of absolute truth. Therefore, they are in the field in the range of pragmatism, which obviously again undergirds what you are saying. Now, let’s go onto this similarly as I did in my opening James, I refer to technology and AI as somewhat of like a two edged sword. You use the both positive and negative consequences to express the same concept. Would you identify both some benefits and negatives that I’m going to say that have already been created by AI technology and then look ahead to what you perceive as likely potential positive and negative consequences?
James Spencer:
Sure. One of the benefits that I’m seeing is in the education space, I think that to the extent, and this is really to the extent that we can control what the AI is saying and train it to provide an appropriate, as you’re saying, a worldview, that it is selecting and doing things that are relevant. I think that AI has the capacity to extend our ability to do more one-on-one like tutoring with students. I think that’s really important. There was a 1980s study done by Edwin Bloom. Some people may know the Bloom’s taxonomy of learning, and he found that if you could provide one-on-one tutoring to students, you could increase their level of academic performance by at least one standard deviation, often two, that takes a C student to a B student or an A student. And so AI provides us with a capacity that we wouldn’t ordinarily have.
You couldn’t provide every student with a physical human tutor to help them learn, but with AI we can. And so I think that’s one of the big benefits. Obviously one of the negatives that we’re already seeing, and this is kind of an easy pot shot to take I suppose, but I think what we’re already seeing is we’re seeing AI fakes, we’re seeing AI developed pictures, videos, those kinds of things. We’re already seeing some of the regulatory lag in how to identify AI driven content. And so what I think the problem there is is not just that people can create an odd pornography video with some celebrities face on it, that’s bad enough. But what I think is bad is that we’re no longer interacting human to human. There’s no real mediation of communication between one human and another. And so Sam, if we’re talking and I’m actually an AI bot that has just learned to dial the phone and speak with you and respond to your questions, we’re not really having a conversation. But you may not know that. I think that’s really bad. It puts us in a scenario where we are completely anonymous to one another and we’re really just interacting with the machine. And so that’s already beginning to happen. We’re already seeing bots and those kind of things utilizing AI to make themselves seem as though they are human even though they’re not. And so that to me is one of those real negatives.
Sam Rohrer:
You know what, and as you’re describing that, I am thinking really the downside mean the one-on-one instruction that you talked about, that I think any teacher, any parent or whatever, can understand that if you could have that continual input and guaranteed that the input in fact was as a believer, biblical and biblically consistent, that would be very significant. But when it’s programmed, as they have said from a humanistic worldview, well then as you’re saying, creating graphics, creating things, and actually holding a conversation as if it is a person, but it’s not a person. But you could be led to think it is a person to me that opens the door extraordinarily for a greater deal of deception. Your thoughts?
James Spencer:
Yeah, absolutely. I think the way I tend to think about this is through selection bias. So in any given situation, we are always selecting what information to share with one another, and we’re trusting one another to make those selections in a way that will advance the conversation and be mutually beneficial. We’re really giving that ability to artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence reads the entire internet and it reads it faster than we ever could. And then what it does is it picks what information it’s going to present to us and how it’s going to combine that information so that it gives it to us in a way that’s intelligent as it summarizes, that becomes the point of selection bias.
Sam Rohrer:
There you go. I think so as well, ladies and gentlemen, because think about it, God created us all with the ability to choose right, determine right from wrong. Okay, well, this thing called AI has a form of intelligence and it is in fact making choices as to what’s best or not best or right or wrong. You see the issue, stay with us. We’ll be right back to continue this great conversation when it comes to new ideas, discoveries or inventions, however you might define that. But in the past, nearly all could be defined as some form of technology. A special guest today, James Spencer, even referred in a broad general sense, even things like clothes, but certainly the manufacturing of clothes has had all technology in order to make it possible. And while we look at the technology of artificial intelligence and the machine learning and the internet that connects the entire globe, even these were preceded by communication enhancements referred to it like the printing press or later the telegraph, and then radio and tv.
But think of this, and now even Elon Musk’s neural link, the neural link implant that goes into a person’s brain that will use to make it function, the ai, it’ll use artificial intelligence, the internet and satellites, and it will take and feed communications not just through the normal typical ear gate and eye gate, but directly into the person’s brain electronically and digitally. As I read this, I’m saying it literally can put thoughts and it can do processing that up to this point generally required careful thought, some meditation wisdom and choice prayer. Yet according to King Solomon, even with all of these things that are really new, even King Solomon said this, there’s nothing new under the sun. So James, while what we’re witnessing AI and very advanced technology, which is new, there’s much about it that is not, and we’ve already had some comments on that. Now, in fact, in your article you did pick up this theme and presented the heart of the challenge where you said this quote, is artificial intelligence a civilization killer?
I’ve already read that. How should Christians think about AI? And then you went on it is a, or is it a, but you said in the emphatic, it is a call to remember that the underlying dynamics of reality seldom change. Unredeemed humanity will tend to exercise its capacity in ways unguided by God’s word and unrestrained by an unwavering allegiance to follow Christ regardless of the sorts of technology available to it. A lot of information in that quote. So here’s my first question you James, what about AI and technology? That is a call to remember that the underlying dynamics of reality seldom change. For instance, what underlying dynamics of reality that seldom change are you referring to?
James Spencer:
Yeah, I usually go to Deuteronomy 30 to talk about the sort of governing dynamics of the underlying dynamics of reality. This is where God is, Israel is about to enter the promised land. Moses addressing Israel, and he says, look, I’ve said before you today, life and death choose life. And the way that you choose life is living in obedience to God, a complete and total allegiance to him. And then he goes on to say in Deuteronomy 30 20, because the Lord is your life and the length of your day, our lives are rooted in our relationship to the Lord and to the extent that we are allegiance to him that we give our full and complete unqualified loyalty to him, that is the dynamic that never changes. It doesn’t matter what tool I’m holding in my hand. If I don’t that whatever I need to accomplish with this tool needs to be shaped by, governed by my desire to serve the Lord and glorify him alone, I’m always going to misuse that tool.
And so I think it is a shaping kind of conversation that I’m trying to have is to say that we can go about enhancing communication, synthesizing information, curating all these different data points. Those aren’t bad goals in and of themselves. The trouble is that we need them to be shaped by an ideal that looks at how are we going to do this faithfully? What does it look like for us to use AI in a way that glorifies God as opposed to pushing him to the side, marginalizing him in our life and suggesting that because this AI knows a lot, it is even anywhere close to the omissions of God.
Sam Rohrer:
Ah, perfectly stated in my opinion. I think that was clear. Lemme just go on and further build on that because in that same statement that I read, you then cited, I’m going to say a key theological reality. You said this quote, unredeemed humanity. Well tend to exercise its capacity in ways unguided by God’s word and unrestrained by an unwavering allegiance to follow Christ. And I like that part from Deuteronomy that you mentioned. I often go to Deuteronomy because so much of what God does, he lays it out and says, I give you two paths. It’s a choice. So we’re talking about that ai, I mean any interpretation has a choice, but what drives it? A fear of God or something else. So would you further build out this particular statement and make applications to not only what you see is happening already with ai, but perhaps even if you pull up a past technological advancement and perhaps what happened to that, that might be helpful too.
James Spencer:
Sure. I’ll use a technological advancement that’s probably not as much of a hot point. I would say the development of motor vehicles and our ability to move away from one another with relative ease. And so if we think about the dynamics that this has had on the church, we start to realize that mass transit, as important as it is and as good as it is, as many benefits does it bring, it also provided the ability for humans to step away from a community where they might have more accountability, where they might depend on one another in ways that we don’t anymore. I think back to the old show, a Little House on the Prairie and how those folks they gather in that little one room church, part of the reason they did that was because they didn’t have a whole lot of other options. It was the closest one to them and it was very difficult to get anywhere else.
But in our age, we can hop in our cars and we can go to any church we’d like. And so these technologies, if we’re not careful with them, what they end up doing is they end up giving us the ability to destroy our own communities and they allow us to separate from one another. And I think that if we look at it from a biblical and theological perspective, the body of Christ is supposed to be together. You’re supposed to have a mutual responsibility to one another. We’re supposed to have an accountability to one another. And if all I have to do is drive 20 minutes in the other direction to escape that responsibility in that accountability, that’s not a good thing for us. And that doesn’t mean it always happens, but the technology gives us the ability to do that. And so I think we’re always seeking independence from God and independence from authority and independence from discipline as opposed to looking at this as the deep interdependencies that would turn us into someone that follows Christ more faithfully.
Sam Rohrer:
I think that is a profound thought that’s worthy of going a lot deeper than the time we have. But you talked about community, and I think a lot of our older listeners remember a time when there was a greater community, James, you and I probably when we grew up, I didn’t have a cell phone, it wasn’t existed, those kinds of things. And so as that has happened and these things become available, it ends up, as you say, unraveling the community. And when you take it from a biblical perspective, the one thing as a church we’re supposed to do is gather together for the purpose of fellowship. Unless you’re looking at somebody in the eye and you’re reading their body language in addition to it, and you can just keep everything distant and removed, goes back to the words you’ve used repeatedly. There is no accountability. There is no ability to sense and allow the Holy Spirit to direct and say, Hey, are you bothered about something? Can I pray for you? Those kinds of things never happen and it makes for a very sterile, you can survive and live, but you’re not really living thoughts.
James Spencer:
Yeah, no, I think that’s absolutely right, Sam. I think that we have lost, there’s a wonderful philosopher who writes about the distinction between things and devices, and he basically says that things sort of force these interactions on us. Think of a Woodburn stove and all the effort that you have to do to build a fire to cook around it, and it’s going to be, if you’re heating your house with it, people are going to be huddled around it. It forces these interactions. Whereas a device like a thermostat, I can now, I can just turn the heat up or down on my phone. I don’t have to interact with anyone. And so this distinction that we’re making, the things that are around us should drive us together, but oftentimes the devices that we create tend to us from one another. And so I just think there’s something very human about being together, about having to put forth the sort of effort that would actually create character within us. We don’t want to give all of that over to a computer system. We don’t want to give that all over to ai. It is okay to shave off some things, right? If an AI can handle some of the sort of mundane administrative aspects of my day, I’m happy to surrender those,
But I don’t want it to take me away from the intellectual efforts that really do end up shaping my mind and giving me the ability now as I interact with other human beings to be a blessing to them.
Sam Rohrer:
There it goes. Boy, we could go so much further. Ladies and gentlemen. I hope that your mind is going and the application to what you are experiencing, but certainly I think you get the heart of what we’re talking about. Fellowship one another hand around somebody’s shoulder. Let me pray for you. Looking in the eye accountability, that’s all. How God has set it up, anything that gets in the way of that, that’s a potential problem. When you come back, we’ll try to conclude with providing some biblical guidelines now overall in addressing technology. Before we go into giving some final thoughts and further building out our discussion there, theme on AI, technology and communication, a Christian perspective, just a couple of things. Number one, you can get this program. Again, stand in the gap radio.com. Everything’s an archive form. Our weekend program, our daily program, the minute program, the TV program, all you can find there or on our Stand in the Gap app, if you haven’t downloaded that, please do.
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Take a look at that. Alright, now, technology and discovery. Here are some thoughts in putting together this program today I was trying to do some work and the Lord led me to put together this thought. And then I’m going to go to James for some guidelines. Guidelines that he could give for us all to remember to help us in this area of technology more directly artificial intelligence specifically. But again, those things that tend to get in the way of our communication directly with God above or replacing somewhat what the Holy Spirit should do and replacing the personal interactions with others. That is God’s design with some distant relationship that is just on your texting of your iPhone or something of that type. So here it’s technology and discovery is common to mankind since God created man with the ability to reason and to think and to develop and to grow and to make decisions.
That’s obviously off the command of God said to take dominion. That’s the dominion charge. It really comes out of that. Yet the controlling aspect that brings God’s blessing must be done in the fear of God and obedience to the word of God. We’ve already touched on that in Proverbs eight, in verse 12 in the chapter, dealing with wisdom and the result of wisdom and knowledge. It says this, it says, I wisdom dwell with prudence and find out knowledge of witty inventions. That’s a King James version of that. Now, some translations interpret inventions differently than inventions or discoveries as we generally think about it, but it certainly does include discoveries and developments as that is what knowledge produces. Now think of this with me. We’re told in the book of Genesis that right after the flood or sometime after the flood of Noah flood, the people continued to rebel against God’s commands, which was to go out and repopulate the earth.
They instead stayed in one place in the plains of Babylon and they built a tower to reach to God because they thought they really were God and they were led there by the demonic influence of a guy named Nimrod. Now, if you read that passage in Genesis 11, God came down as we know, and he scattered the people how through confusing their communication, changing their languages. And he made this incredible in statement, Genesis 11, six, it says this, and the Lord said, behold, they are one people and they have one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and nothing that they per purpose to do will now be impossible for them. The passage emphatically that human knowledge can achieve the impossible, but without God it becomes a rebellion to God and evil and tyrannical in every way. So throughout history, great inventors are on record of commenting about the reason behind their inventions, and it was either to further evil or it was to further good in the fear of God. So they had a choice and so do we today. Alright, what principles can we apply? James, lay down some additional summary principles to living all of life really in the fear of God. Now for the Christian, as we’re talking about technology generally, specifically ai, when in fact it appears that the designers of AI and all that go with it really reflect more of the attitude of the folks in the days of the tower Babel.
James Spencer:
Yeah, I think one of the things I would say is I hear a lot of people when they talk about ai, they make, they sort of paint this dystopian future that AI is going to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to humanity. And I want to encourage Christians not to fall prey to doom and gloom or to nostalgia. We as Christians interact in a world that always wants us to be distracted from following God. It’s always wanted us to reorient our attention away from him. And so the things that we need to do in this moment don’t really change that much. We need to learn the word of God. We need to engage with our communities. We need to have strong accountability. We need to focus on Christ. We need to be doing our spiritual disciplines so that we reorient ourselves and posture ourselves so that we can respond to God.
Those are still the basics, the foundation of everything that we need to do. Now as we interact with artificial intelligence, my encouragement would be is to treat it as if you’re learning to read. Again, when we read, we have to learn to interpret symbols. We have to learn what books to pick up, what books to put away, what to read, what not to read, and I think that it is very similar to ai. It’s a new literacy that we have to develop. And so if you’re going to use artificial intelligence, particularly some of the chat GBTs or open AI sort of platforms, my encouragement would be take some time to learn how to prompt the AI to do what you’re doing. I would also just further say, if you’re going to do these things, my encouragement would be to only use artificial intelligence for things that you already know about.
When I use artificial intelligence to do anything, let’s say I want to ask it a Bible question. I don’t mind asking it a Bible question, but I already sort of know what I’m doing in biblical and theological studies. I’ve had a lot of training in that. I don’t know that someone without that level of training should probably use artificial intelligence just to ask a random Bible question. Go find that somewhere else. And so put up some guardrails for yourself, I guess is my point. When you’re interacting with artificial intelligence to make sure that you’re not being led astray, that you’re not subject to some of the assumptions that it is not making clear to you, use it in a wise fashion is probably the best advice I could give. But on a practical level, I do think it is very much, it’s a new literacy that we’re going to have to figure out how to use, and that’s okay. We just have to now figure out how to use it. How do you ask it questions, how do you probe it? How do you really get down to the depths of what it’s actually telling you and how do you double check some of the information that it is providing to you? How do we go about doing that diligently and with a structure that will make sure that we are still sifting the wheat in the chaff?
Sam Rohrer:
That was excellent. Ladies and gentlemen, I know you weren’t able to write all of those things down. Again. Get the program, get a transcript which is available for free online and walk down through those Again. Ultimately, as we say here, living in the fear of God, keeping his commandments, and that’s why we say go back to the word of God. Word of God is authoritative. Everything must be checked by the word of God. That’s the only thing that is true and always true and never changes. Dr. James Spencer from the moody center.org, thank you so much for being with us today. Really good information. Very, very practical. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being with us and the weekend ahead as we go. Very stand in a gap of truth. Dear God, keep his command.
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