Should Christians use and trust the new Jesus bots?

The crisis of education in which one in 12 college students cannot do middle school math

is AI changing the way we think and thus undermining basic human skills and the new

singlehood dilemma in which singles are simultaneously told they should seek

a partner and yet celebrate their singleness.

These are the stories we will discuss, and we will also address some of your questions.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update, brought you by Talbot School Theology, Biola

University.

Scott, as always, man, we've got some interesting stories, and we're going to start a little bit light with this

opinion piece in the New York Times about Jesus bought. The title is Jesus bought is always

on demand, and then it says for a small monthly fee.

So this opinion writer who's Jewish spent a week talking to three different religious chat bots about struggles and questions, Bible chat, Christian AI, and what's called text with

Jesus.

Now, this person is not doing an experiment on the quality of the

scriptural analysis. The person's like, I'm Jewish and have minimal knowledge of Christian

doctrine. Fair enough. But it turns out majority of Americans are Christians and have a Christian

background. So she's trying to get a sense of what advice are these chatbots giving

to people who identify as Christian.

One called Text with Jesus invited her to, quote, delve deep into the lives of biblical figures

and seek answers to life's most profound questions in real time.

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