Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson.

This is episode 416, 416. Okay. So what I wanted to do today is talk a little bit more about artificial intelligence. Talk a little bit more about AI. I think I told you before that I divide the world of AI up into different sectors.

There's the kind of AI that's just a very useful tool for doing donkey work, basic work.

There is the world of AI where a bunch of people are going to gallop after it,

overinvest, throw a lot of money at it, do stupid things with it, and then lose their shirts.

So the, like the dot com bubble, there's going to be the AI bubble and there's going to be, there's going to be that

world of chaos. And then there's AI that's just evil, demonic, you want to have nothing to do

with. And the problem is, if you work with it at all, then where do you draw the line? How do you make,

how do you make the distinctions that you will need to make?

My son, Nate, just yesterday, sent to our family chat a quotation from Lion the Witch in the

wardrobe, or Mr. Beaver on AI. Mr. Beaver says, if you meet something that is going to be human but isn't or used to be

human and isn't now or ought to be human, then feel for your hatchet.

So the thing that you want to keep in the forefront of your mind is that apart from Christ,

outside of Christ, men are idolaters.

Outside of Christ, men are idolaters.

And AI makes that kind of idolatry easy.

Now, men are such inveterate idolaters

that they will bow down to a carved stone.

They will bow down to a block of wood

and come up with some fancy mental exercise

to justify what they're doing.

But we are approaching an era where the idol can speak, the idol can solve problems,

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