Should Catholics feel guilty using AI? | The Deep
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
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AI guilt is real – and it’s spreading fast. From AI tutors to “dead-grandma” tech, here are the Catholic non-negotiables for navigating AI without losing your mind, your soul, or your humanity. Amish vs. Optimist starts now.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro: Should we feel guilty using AI?
4:41 - NO AI JESUS!
4:50 - Non-negotiable 1: Education
9:59 - Non-negotiable 2: Childhood
12:03 - Non-negotiable 3: Writing
13:50 - Non-negotiable 4: Coping with grief
15:54 - Non-negotiable 5: AI companions
18:50 - Non-negotiable 6: Art
20:36 - Conclusion: Drawing the line
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have AI-induced guilt? |
| 0:02.9 | Feelings of shame when you ask ChatGPT to edit, critique, or generate your text. |
| 0:08.3 | My girl Flannery O'Connor, always a sharp wit, once said, |
| 0:11.8 | The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. |
| 0:16.7 | If you're not feeling any guilt, you're probably not paying attention. |
| 0:24.6 | The truth is that AI is here, and it's changing us. AI is already shaping how millions of us think, work, pray, fall in love, procrastinate, and make decisions. |
| 0:33.6 | We've lived through tech revolutions before, but this one is different. Even the people |
| 0:39.0 | building it are calling for pauses on superintelligence because they know progress is not an |
| 0:45.8 | unqualified good. It can damage us environmentally, psychologically, and spiritually. |
| 0:53.0 | All I know is we need clarity now. |
| 0:56.3 | But what we have instead, from where I stand, |
| 0:59.3 | are two very loud, very self-assured camps fighting for the soul of modern man. |
| 1:05.2 | One camp says, embrace it. |
| 1:07.3 | We don't use typewriters anymore. |
| 1:09.5 | Innovation is good. |
| 1:11.9 | And the other camp, |
| 1:17.0 | they want to unplug completely, smash the phones, and maybe build a monastery in the woods where the only algorithm is Gregorian chant. Techno-optimists on the one hand, |
| 1:22.0 | anarchists on the other. It's the new AI fault line, and it doesn't map neatly onto left wing or right wing. |
| 1:29.3 | It's Amish versus Optimist, Luddite versus Launch the Rocket. |
| 1:33.3 | And most of us fall somewhere in the middle and feel like no matter what we do, it's going to be wrong. |
| 1:40.3 | If AI is flattening our brains, replicating our voices, spying on our families, and nipping |
| 1:46.7 | a little too close to sentience, maybe we should just tear it all down, at least in our |
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