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Today we're pleased to share with you one of our articles on audio.

How to Stay Human in an AI World, read by Pete Nicholas, the author.

All of us are looking for guidance on how to use and interact with AI.

There's no shortage of content that aims to help you use AI efficiently and productively.

But what about content geared towards using it well?

Not in the competent sense, but in the moral sense.

We all feel tempted to look for a simple list of rules of engagement with AI, but I'm convinced virtue formation is more important.

Rules are rigid while virtues are adaptive, able to respond differently to varied situations.

Think of it like the difference between practicing scales and playing music.

The scales are formative and an important part of learning note progressions, but musicians

don't learn scales just to play scales. Instead, the scales form them into skilled musicians,

able to play and improvise. Similarly, one challenge with AI is its wide range of applications and the varied context in which it's deployed.

Therefore, any rules-based approach is going to struggle to be comprehensive or flexible enough to be helpful.

However, inhabiting certain core virtues enables us to go out and not really rehearse scales, but play.

That is, thoughtfully apply those virtues to a wide range of circumstances.

Here then are four vital virtues we need to inhabit to stay human in our AI world.

First, fellowship and community versus individuality.

We are made in the image of a God who is inherently relational as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Therefore, we're made for community.

Community flourishes when we orient ourselves around others, and it dies when we withdraw and focus on ourselves.

In the New Testament, many virtues are important for

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