Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

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

Save the Humanities from the Slop by Alan Noble, read by the author.

The rise of AI, the ubiquity of cheap and accessible entertainment, the power of social media

and the progressive secular biases of many educators have caused some Christians to question

whether there's any good in studying the humanities today.

That question has grown louder in part because of our bespoke information ecosystems.

Whatever knowledge we can gain from literature can, presumably, be gleaned through chat GPT

summaries of novels and poetry.

Whatever writing we need to develop through taking courses can be avoided by writing through an AI platform.

Whatever political context we need to know how to vote can be found in a TikTok video

or Instagram reel.

Whatever historical reality makes sense of our moment can be explained

better by an influencer I follow on X, who shares my worldview, than by a PhD or expert in that

area of knowledge. Whether you're seeking to learn through personal study or pursue a college degree,

there seems to be little reason

to pick up a novel, history book, or work of philosophy, or poetry today, when the benefits

of those works can be delivered to you in neatly packaged form through AI. And in obtaining that

summary, you can avoid all the biases of secular liberals even better.

While this line of thinking is wildly persuasive to many right now,

so persuasive that reading is in decline and AI cheating is rampant in high schools and college campuses,

it is profoundly mistaken. We need the humanities today

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