Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prevalent in many aspects of our modern lives. Millions of individuals use platforms such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Meta AI, among others, for a variety of purposes, including writing, data collection and research, and conversation. There’s no industry or sphere of life that hasn’t been affected by the arrival of AI.
Although the internet is a 20th-century invention, it catalyzed the 21st century to become an era in human history when technological advancements occur at an unforeseen rate. For example, the smartphone made computers with internet connection so portable they fit in our pockets.
Additionally, these phones have become personal assistants that curate and distribute information, give us directions, entertain us, and now, with the advent of AI, are performing duties once considered limited to humans.
As Christians, we understand human beings are uniquely created by God in His image. As a result, we have intrinsic worth, dignity, moral agency, and the ability to use God-given creativity to develop technological advances for human flourishing.
RaShan Frost, ERLC director of research
This development is a means by which we fulfill the creation mandate to cultivate the world the Lord created (Genesis 1:28). Yet, we also must recognize that technological advancements are not merely the creation of tools but shape how we see the world around us.
Just as the printing press facilitated the Reformation by making the Bible more accessible to people and automobiles changed how we viewed transportation, travel, and life, AI has changed and will continue to change human life at a magnitude we have yet to comprehend.
