Cultural Update: Can AI be blamed for suicide?; Religious comeback?; Political word games

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week's topics: A tragic story about a 14-year-old's suicide raises questions about the role of AI in human relationships.Exploring the possibility of a religious comeback: Are we seeing signs of renewed interest in faith?Political word games and the language used by both sides to shape public perception.Listener questions on bridging ideological divides with family and engaging with differing religious views.==========Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast...

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0:00.0	A 14 year old commits suicide after becoming obsessed with a chatbot.
0:06.1	Can we blame AI? Is religion making a comeback? And the political word games
0:11.8	both political parties make that Christians need to be aware of.
0:16.0	These are the stories I'm going to discuss today and I'm also going to address some of your questions.
0:21.0	Why is it just me? Well, Scott is out today and
0:24.8	our other guest was not able to join us, our guest co-host. So it's me
0:29.6	flying solo at the ThinkBibically Weekly Cultural Update brought to you by Talbot School of Theology.
0:37.0	All right, we got three stories and some questions we're going to work through.
0:41.0	This first story was actually sent to me by a professor at Biola, an Old Testament professor.
0:46.7	It's from the New York Times, and I think it's a trend of some significant things that are now here and are coming soon.
0:54.8	The title is, can AI be blamed for a teen's suicide?
0:59.8	A heartbreaking story, prepare yourself.
1:03.0	The mother of a 14 year old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on character
1:09.6	dot AI before his death.
1:12.2	On the last day of his life this young man named Sewell took out his phone
1:16.4	texted his closest friend which is a lifelike AI chatbot named Danny after a character from Game of Thrones. He says, I miss you, baby sister, he wrote.
1:27.3	I miss you too, sweet brother. The chatbot replied. The 14 year old ninth grader from Florida knew that Danny is the nickname somewhat
1:37.8	was just a chatbot not a real person but he developed according to the story an emotional attachment anyways,
1:46.7	texted the bot constantly, updating it dozens of times a day, engaged in in-playing dialogues, some got romantic and
1:55.6	sexual. His parents and friends had no idea he had fallen for a chatpot. They saw him get stuck deeper and deeper into his
2:05.2	phone, saw him pull away from the rest of the real world, isolate himself, his
2:10.7	grades were suffering, he'd go to his room right away after school.
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