#410 Is AI a Threat to Your Faith? Building a Christian Alternative - Dominion AI Team

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Zuby is joined by Eric Reid, Ryan Courtney, and Brendon Maddock, the team behind Dominion AI, a Christian-built alternative to mainstream AI models. The three share how their conviction that AI is not neutral led them to build a tool grounded in scripture and designed to protect believers from the secular biases baked into platforms like ChatGPT and Claude.

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0:00.0	What's up, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast.
0:05.0	On today's episode, I am here with not one, not two, but three guests.
0:10.0	I've got Eric Reed, Ryan Cotney, and Brandon Maddock from the Dominion AI team.
0:16.0	Welcome to the show.
0:17.0	Thanks for having us, man. We're excited to be here.
0:19.0	Absolutely. Great to have you guys. So the first question I want to ask is, who are you? Please introduce yourselves to my listeners. Yeah, well, first and foremost, collectively, we are a group of Christians who find ourselves in this wild AI space trying to make a difference. Now individually, who are we and why are we doing
0:39.9	this? My name is Eric Crane. I'm a pastor and entrepreneur. I'm involved in a lot of different things,
0:45.5	but I pastor a church 20 years ago. I planted that church outside of Nashville, Tennessee. And part of
0:53.4	this team is Ryan Cotney, who is a jack of all trades.
0:57.6	He pastors a church he planted.
0:59.6	He leads a big resource discipleship ministry called Cross Form Kids.
1:04.3	And he's actually the one with the Genesis for the Dominion idea that maybe we can talk about later.
1:09.6	And then we got the brains of the organization.
1:12.3	He's the one that keeps the pastor straight.
1:15.0	And that's Brandon Maddick, who is not a pastor, thankfully, because he's an AI, you know,
1:21.2	engineer genius and McKenzie trained consultant and just a, you know, all around around awesome dude and the three of us collectively
1:29.8	zubi came together with a conviction that said AI is not neutral Christians are going to be using
1:36.2	AI there's no way around it so what can we do to make sure they're using tools that do not hate
1:41.4	their worldview when you say that AI is not neutral, what do you mean by that?
1:46.3	Yeah, I'll let code jump into this too, but I would just start by saying AI is not without a
1:51.4	worldview in the system.
1:53.5	Baked into the system is going to be metaphysics, right?
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