Many use artificial intelligence (AI) in one form or another.
That’s your choice. However, please consider AI is not a neutral technology, and the facts show it’s built on many negative things the Bible says God hates.
Predicted Problems Unfold Daily
For years, secular technologists said that AI had the potential to escape inadequate guardrails and would soon cause unforeseen events with unexpected consequences.
A few days ago, OpenAI disclosed that a model under development escaped from the lab, accessed the internet, and carried out a cyberattack on Hugging Face, a platform that hosts open-source AI models and datasets.
That’s scary, like a plot from a science fiction horror film.
Doctor Frankenstein’s Monster Unleashed
In the Christian community, there are well-intentioned individuals and pastors who believe that AI is a neutral technology, but an increasing body of evidence suggests otherwise.
For example:
- The speed of AI development without adequate safety protocols has increased the level of risk. AI can now rewrite its own code. Like Doctor Frankenstein, many developers admit that they neither understand nor control the monsters they’ve created. OpenAI’s recent AI model gone rogue underscores this growing danger. Even a casual review of AI executives’ choices has shown a preference for speed over safety, and that’s anything but neutral.
- Most corporations develop generative AI models for commercial applications, and in multiple instances, evidence has shown that the want for profits outweighed the need for community safety. Children, women, and the mentally vulnerable have suffered. Search the internet for AI-related issues, and you will find detailed evidence of how AI technology has stolen copyrighted material, killed human creativity, and destroyed lifelong reputations. In your search, please note the number of suicides tied to the use of AI, and that’s absolutely not neutral.
- Generative AI technology uses large language models, which can and often include the most despicable images and words, examples of what humans do to themselves and to others. The offensive material in large language models shifted AI technology from neutral to negative.
Where Do You Draw the Line?
If you still think that AI is a neutral technology, please reconsider.
For instance:
- AI has unleashed a tsunami of pornography, giving users the ability to undress images of people downloaded from the internet.
- Now think about the parents who posted vacation pictures of their little girls and boys.
- Pedophiles download and strip the clothing off images of children. Then, like baseball cards, pedophiles trade those nudified images on the internet.
Where should Christians draw the line with the use of generative AI technology?
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