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The Russell Moore Show

Are We Miracle or Machine?

The Russell Moore Show

Russell Moore

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How should Christians think about evolving technology? What does it look like to engage in conversations about ChatGPT or the Bing AI bot that recently tried to persuade a New York Times reporter to leave his spouse for the bot? How is society affected by apocalyptic predictions regarding overpopulation or climate change? On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, poet, author, and literary critic Adam Kirsch joins Moore to answer these questions. They talk about Kirsch’s new book, The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us; Jewish and Christian views of human nature; and how to communicate across differences in worldview. They ask whether people with an antihuman mindset—in which humans are the problem—have it right. Or, perhaps, are the transhumanists—who believe we can and should transcend humanity—on to something? Might God offer a better way than either of these perspectives? Tune in for an episode that explores the possibilities for what life could look like in the coming years and ponders how God might encourage his people to live in these times. Resources mentioned in this episode include: “Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive.’” by Kevin Roose The Revolt Against Humanity by Adam Kirsch The Precipice by Tony Ord “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor Click here for a trial membership at Christianity Today. “The Russell Moore Show” is a production of Christianity Today Executive Producers: Erik Petrik, Russell Moore, and Mike Cosper Host: Russell Moore Producer: Ashley Hales Associate Producers: Abby Perry and Azurae Phelps CT Administration: Christine Kolb Social Media: Kate Lucky Director of Operations for CT Media: Matt Stevens Production Assistance: coreMEDIA Audio Engineer: Kevin Duthu Coordinator: Beth Grabenkort Video Producer: John Roland Theme Song: “Dusty Delta Day” by Lennon Hutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This episode is brought to you in part by the Table Podcast from the Hendrix Center at Dallas Theological Seminary.

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dot o'rg. Oh, Hello, this is Russell Moore and you're listening to the Russell Moore show brought to you by Christianity today.

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Every week we explore here conversations and questions from a Christian perspective to help you sort out how to live as a follower of Jesus in confusing times.

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This week we have a conversation to seek to do just that. I honestly considered for about a nanosecond

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changing my son's name a few months ago

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because for whatever reason the Alexa device in our home would activate every time I would say my son

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Samuel's name with the voice of Samuel L Jackson as the Alexa operator asking me what I needed and when I started having to spell

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Samuel to my wife so that I wouldn't activate it I started to realize we're in a creepy new place here when we're trying to avoid

2:06.1

this device even just to talk to one another and of course it has become much

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creepier since out there in the world.

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News is everywhere about chat gPT with not only just the sorts of dizzying questions about what are high school and college

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essays going to look like, are these artificially intelligent devices going to be able to write

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sermons, but also this really unnerving

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account of a New York Times reporter chatting with the Bing artificial intelligent

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artificial intelligent chatbot in which the Bing chatbot

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