Cultural Update: Teen use of AI chatbots; Canada pushes to expand euthanasia; cash aid lacks results; designer babies fall short

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Teen use of AI chatbots is on the rise, prompting concern over emotional dependency, harmful content, and the loss of real human connection.Cash aid to low-income families lacks results, challenging assumptions about poverty and flourishing.Canada pushes to expand euthanasia to mental illness, raising ethical alarms about autonomy, consent, and the value of life.Designer baby hype falls short, exposing the limits of genetic screening and the dangers of treating children as customizable produc...

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0:00.0	Teen use of AI chatbots is taken off. A new fight emerges to stop euthanasia for the mentally ill.
0:09.9	A rigorous study reveals that cash payments to poor families does nothing to help child development.
0:16.2	And the hype about designer babies appears to be, well, maybe more hype than science.
0:21.4	These are the stories we'll discuss, and we will also address some of your excellent questions.
0:25.7	I'm your host, Sean McDowell.
0:27.3	I'm your host, Scott Ray.
0:28.7	This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update brought to by Talbot School Theology, Biola University.
0:35.5	Scott, I've like missed this time together. We took a month off in July and
0:40.7	like stories dropped. I was like, oh, number one, I want to know what Scott thinks. Number two,
0:45.4	I've got opinions about this stuff. So I'm rested, rearing to go. How about you?
0:50.0	Well, the break was helpful, but, you know, I collected a whole host of stories that we ended up not doing much with.
0:57.6	And wish we had the chance to go back and do that.
1:00.3	But we're going to keep it current from stuff that dropped this week.
1:04.2	And that's been our regular pattern.
1:06.0	So it's really good to be back.
1:08.1	And I hope our audience enjoyed the bonuses that we, we posted every
1:12.0	Friday during the month of July. But we are, we are back and ready to roll. So let's do it.
1:19.2	Well, this story, first one, feels particularly pressing because I was at camps and conferences
1:24.2	this summer and also parent events and had a number of conversations with
1:28.4	concerns about the growing use of chatbots specifically with teenagers.
1:35.6	So this story dropped from common sense media.
1:39.1	And here's just a few things to help frame this.
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