#388 AI 101: What Every Christian Should Know About Artificial Intelligence | Ryan Pauly
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Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
AI is already shaping the way we search, learn, create, and even think. The question isn't whether Christians should engage with AI, it's how.
In this conversation, Alisa sits down with Ryan Pauly to wrestle with questions like: Can AI think? Does it have a mind—or does it just process information? Why does it so confidently get things wrong? And how can Christians avoid letting technology shape their worldview instead of allowing Scripture to shape the way they use technology?
They discuss:
Why AI is never truly "neutral"
The crucial difference between a mind and a machine
How technology quietly forms our habits and worldview
AI's tendency to hallucinate—and why that matters
Biblical principles for stewarding AI without becoming mastered by it
Practical ways to use AI while protecting wisdom, discernment, and human flourishing
Whether you're enthusiastic about AI or deeply skeptical, this conversation will help you think biblically about one of the most influential technologies of our time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, today's episode is all about AI and how Christians can steward this tool well. |
| 0:15.1 | Now, I realize that there are a lot of Christians who have said, I'm not going to use AI, I'm not going to engage with it. |
| 0:20.5 | And I honestly respect that. But the problem is that AI is already so deeply embedded into |
| 0:26.6 | almost everything we do when we come to a computer screen or an iPad or an iPhone. |
| 0:32.6 | And so even if we put in a simple Google search, AI is being utilized to produce our results. So I think |
| 0:38.3 | what a better question is, is how can Christians steward this well? We know from the creation |
| 0:43.0 | mandate that goes all the way back to Genesis, that we're to steward creation. Well, today's |
| 0:48.4 | episode is all about how to take the principles from the Bible and apply them to how Christians |
| 0:52.9 | interact with AI. And I have a great |
| 0:55.2 | guest to discuss this with Ryan Pauley, who has just contributed to a book called Stewarding AI, |
| 1:00.8 | faithfully using creation resources along with Deanna Huff, Brian Chilton, and Eric Hernandez. They've |
| 1:07.0 | taken biblical principles and applied it to every aspect of how Christians can engage with AI. |
| 1:12.1 | So this is a fascinating conversation. I got so much out of it. I know that you will too. |
| 1:17.1 | But before I take you to Ryan, I want to let you know about another resource on this topic that I just recorded with my friend Natasha Crane. |
| 1:24.4 | We sat down with Eric Reed and Brandon Maddock from Dominion AI, which is a |
| 1:29.1 | Christian-based AI system, to talk specifically about some recent statistics that were released |
| 1:34.6 | about the Christian use of AI. How many Christians actually trust AI? Is AI becoming a replacement |
| 1:41.0 | for pastors? Is AI replacing God for some Christians? This was a very fascinating |
| 1:46.4 | conversation. A lot of the statistics were actually quite surprising to me. And I think you'll get a |
| 1:51.8 | lot out of that episode. We just released it on our Unshaken Faith podcast channel. So make sure you |
| 1:56.3 | subscribe to that because we don't release episodes as frequently as we do on our personal podcast, but when we do, |
| 2:02.9 | we really try to bring some really informative content in the form of book reviews or in this |
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