Cultural Update: Resurrected as a chatbot; Young men falling behind; IVF followup

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Sean and Scott discuss: A murdered teenager was resurrected as a chatbot, raising ethical and theological concerns about AI misuse.A Harvard study suggests that race matters less than it used to for achieving the American dream, with economic mobility improving for Black Americans.Young men in America are falling behind in education, employment, and mental health, facing a crisis of purpose and increasing isolation.Listener question: ethical dilemmas around IVF, including the ...

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0:00.0	A teenager murdered 20 years ago is resurrected as a chat bot through Character.A.I.
0:08.2	Does race matter less in terms of who can achieve the American dream?
0:12.2	A Harvard study seems to suggest so.
0:15.0	Men are falling radically behind women in mental health, education, life purpose, and so much more. These are the stories we'll
0:22.6	discuss today, and we will address some of your excellent questions. I'm your host, Sean McDowell.
0:27.6	And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update,
0:32.3	brought to by Talbot School Theology, Biola University. Scott, this week, it took us more work than ever to find
0:38.9	non-politically stories and felt like others are weighing in on that. And since life is going on,
0:46.0	and there are some important stories, we would cover that. But next week, given that the elections
0:50.7	are next week, we might weigh in on that. So that's the plan. How does that sound
0:55.1	to you? Well, I think, yeah. I mean, we, we scoured our news feeds for stories that didn't have
1:00.4	anything to do with the election. I think we found some good ones, but it took a lot more work.
1:05.0	And I think we will, even though, you know, chances are by the time we post this next week,
1:10.3	the election may not actually be decided. but we will have some reflections on the election for next time.
1:19.3	Well, this story came from a friend of ours who's been on the program, Christopher Lind.
1:24.8	He sent this to me. It was just so jarring and illustrative. I thought we'd try to think
1:29.2	biblically about it. This is from Futurism.com. And the title is that a father's disgusted to find his
1:36.4	murder daughter was brought back as an AI. Now, a user went to the billion dollar AI platform, character.A.I, which I discussed last week, to make a chatbot version of a murdered teen nearly two decades after her death.
1:54.2	Jennifer Cresente of Austin, Texas, was just 18 years old when she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2006. Her father has found
2:02.5	and continues to run a nonprofit dedicated to teen dating violence in her memory. He told the
2:09.0	Washington Post, he said, it takes quite a bit for me to be shocked because I really have been
2:13.7	through quite a bit. He said, but this was a new low.
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