Welcome to Breakpoint, Daily Look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Dr. John Lennox is a renowned mathematician, bioethicist, and lay theologian who's written many books on religion, ethics, and the relationship between science and God.

His most recent work, God, AI, and the end of history, and also the book, 2084 and

the AI Revolution, both confront the challenging and confusing reality of AI, all from a Christian

worldview.

In our recent conversation for the Breakpoint podcast, Dr. Lennox made an essential distinction

between narrow AI, that's high-performing processing tools that easily integrate into modern

life, and artificial general intelligence or AGI. That's the idea of superintelligence

based on existing human intelligences or something just radically new.

It's the AGI version of AI that's evoking such serious concerns today.

As Dr. Lennox clarified in our conversation, what's driving much of the push for AGI is

transhumanism, a worldview that stands in stark contrast with Christianity.

Here's Dr. Lennox.

Part of the AGI hype is the desire or the part of people like Yuvaldo Harari to create transhumans.

We're evolving up to a higher stage. We take our own genetics into our

own hands and we develop superhumans and so achieve a certain kind of immortality. And I

found it very interesting that he suggested, in his bestseller, Homo Deus, he suggested that the agenda for the 21st century

really amounts to, firstly, to solve the problem of physical death. He said, in a short time,

we won't have to die. We can die, but we won't have to because we solve this physical dying as a technical problem.

Secondly, we will increase, massively increase human happiness by biogenic engineering, merging with machines and all the rest of it.

And that's their plan to achieve some kind of eternal life.

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