Jude 17-23

My friend, Clint Freeman, sent me an article this week

It has to do with Artificial Intelligence and I added it to my “weird news” file
Darin White, “Four in ten Gen-Z and millennial adults say spiritual advice from AI is just as trustworthy as advice from a pastor. One-third of teenagers have talked to an AI companion rather than a human being about serious, personal issues. Thirty-nine percent of Gen Z would skip or delay a doctor’s visit if AI told them their symptoms were low risk . . . . And 26 percent of Gen Z adults have engaged in some form of romantic or companion relationship with an AI chat bot.”
- this is either scary or silly, but there is another development that is more serious for us
White, "[In] April, a tech company . . . launched an AI-generated avatar of Jesus that people can talk to, pray with, and seek spiritual counsel from for $1.99 per minute. The avatar was trained on the King James Bible . . . .”
- one of the concerns I have about this, is AI is not bullet-proof
• I’ve been reading Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations
◦ in chapter 5, he quotes an author without naming him, but claims he was,
Adam Smith, “by far the most illustrious philosopher and historian of the present age”
◦ I assumed he was referring to David Hume, because he was a friend that Smith admired
• when I looked it up, an AI engine immediately popped up and curtly (I felt) reported,
"no philosopher is quoted in book 5 of The Wealth of Nations
◦ dissatisfied, I searched for the actual quote, and that was in Hume’s writings
◦ feeling vindicated, I corrected the snobbish AI bot