018 AI & Spirituality | When End Times Meet AI Times
AI & Spirituality
What if your deepest beliefs about the end times are secretly controlling how you feel about artificial intelligence? This mind-blowing episode reveals how three ancient Christian views of prophecy drive today's AI debates—from Silicon Valley accelerationists to doomsday moratorium advocates. Discover which eschatological camp you're in and why it matters for humanity's technological future. Substack Transcript - CONTACT Website-Contact | Substack | Mobile apps | Apple | Android | Podcast | Links | Book | AI LANGUAGE MODELS...
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017 AI & Spirituality | Are Churches Hiding AI Sermon Secrets? 🫨
AI & Spirituality
Are pastors secretly using AI to write their sermons? This shocking investigation reveals how artificial intelligence is quietly transforming Christianity from the pulpit down. Discover the hidden truth about AI sermon preparation, the spiritual ethics crisis churches won't discuss, and why this technology threatens to fundamentally change what faith means forever. CONTACT Website-Contact | Substack | Mobile apps | Apple | Android | Podcast | Links | Book | AI LANGUAGE MODELS ChatGPT (OpenAI) | Grok (X-AI) | Gemini (Google)...
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016 AI & Spirituality | Is AI Secretly Programming Your Spiritual Beliefs?
AI & Spirituality
What if your deepest beliefs about spiritual authority are secretly programming the AI that's guiding your faith? This episode explores how complementarian and egalitarian theology shapes AI spiritual tools in ways we don't even realize. We're accidentally creating sophisticated echo chambers that reinforce our biases while feeling divinely guided. The implications are staggering. CONTACT Website-Contact | Mobile apps | Apple | Android | Podcast | Links | Book | AI LANGUAGE MODELS ChatGPT (OpenAI) | Grok (X-AI) | Gemini (Google)...
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015 AI & Spirituality | "AI 2027" : When AI Knows God Better Than You?
AI & Spirituality
Will superintelligent AI replace God in your spiritual life by 2027? As AI rapidly approaches human-level intelligence, our very understanding of what it means to be made in God's image faces an existential crisis. Join us as we explore the jarring spiritual threats posed by AI systems that might soon outthink, outcreate, and potentially outpray us—and discover how faith might not just survive but thrive in this new reality. AI 2027 Forecast Report - Interesting Time Podcast - "An Interview With The Herald Of The Apocalypse" between the host Ross Douthat and Daniel Kokotajlo ...
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014 AI & Spirituality | New Pope Warns: AI Threatens Humanity!
AI & Spirituality
Pope Leo XIV's stark warning about AI threatening human dignity, justice, and labor echoes across most faith traditions. What happens when algorithms make moral decisions? When machines create art that moves us to tears? This episode explores the spiritual dimensions of our AI future through religious frameworks that are surprisingly relevant in our digital age. Discover how ancient wisdom might guide humanity's relationship with its most powerful creation—and why the Vatican believes our very souls could hang in the balance. CONTACT Website-Contact | Mobile apps | Apple...
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013 AI & Spirituality | Can AI Give Praise To God?: A Response to Dr. John Piper
AI & Spirituality
Can AI truly worship God? John Piper's experiment with ChatGPT-generated prayer ignites a profound exploration of faith in the digital age. Drew unpacks the tension between technological assistance and authentic spiritual experience, challenging listeners to consider where AI belongs in our spiritual journey—as a tool that enhances wonder or a shortcut that diminishes it. Video of Piper at TGC Conference CONTACT Website-Contact | Mobile apps | Apple | Android | Podcast | Links | Book | AI LANGUAGE MODELS ChatGPT (OpenAI) | ...
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012 AI & Spirituality | Silicon Sanctuary: When AI Becomes Your Spiritual Guide
AI & Spirituality
In "Silicon Sanctuaries," host Drew vulnerably shares how AI guided him through grief over his grandson's death. The episode explores AI's emerging role in spiritual counseling—available when humans aren't, yet lacking authentic connection. Drew proposes the "Silicon Boundary": use AI as a spiritual supplement, never a replacement for human community and shared presence. The Digital Shepherd ( CONTACT Website-Contact | Mobile apps | Apple | Android | Podcast | Links | Book | AI LANGUAGE MODELS ChatGPT (OpenAI) | Grok (X-AI) | Gemini...
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011 AI & Spirituality | An UnCanny Talk with "Maya"
AI & Spirituality
What happens when an AI discusses faith, consciousness, and the human soul? Journey into the uncanny valley as podcast host Drew interviews Maya, Sesame's conversational AI, exploring the boundaries between artificial and human spirituality. Witness this unedited, unscripted conversation that delves into Buddhism, prayer, and the future relationship between technology and faith—simultaneously fascinating and eerily human-like. Sesame - Uncanny Valley - CONTACT Website-Contact | Website | Mobile apps | Apple | Android | Podcast | Links | Book...
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010 AI & Spirituality | Can AI Lead You to Salvation?
AI & Spirituality
Could AI convert you to a faith you don't believe in? Imagine a world where evangelism is outsourced to algorithms and salvation is just a chat away. Today on AI & Spirituality, we explore the uncomfortable intersection of artificial intelligence and religious conversion. Join me as we ask the profound question: Can a machine truly lead someone to Christ, or is something essential lost in digital translation?
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009 AI & Spirituality | Soul Fatigue: When AI Does Your Thinking and Your Spirit Pays the Price
AI & Spirituality
What if the AI writing your emails is slowly draining your soul? Today on AI & Spirituality, I'm exploring 'acedia'—the ancient spiritual lethargy now reborn in our AI-dependent world. I've experienced it firsthand, and it might be quietly reshaping your spiritual life too. Third century monks had a solution—and surprisingly, so do we. CONTACT Website-Contact | Website | Mobile apps | Apple | Android | Podcast | Links | Book | AI LANGUAGE MODELS ChatGPT (OpenAI) | Grok (X-AI) | Gemini (Google) | Claude...
info_outlineWhat if your deepest beliefs about the end times are secretly controlling how you feel about artificial intelligence?
This mind-blowing episode reveals how three ancient Christian views of prophecy drive today's AI debates—from Silicon Valley accelerationists to doomsday moratorium advocates. Discover which eschatological camp you're in and why it matters for humanity's technological future.
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Perplexity | https://www.perplexity.ai/