The Patrick Madrid Show: April 01, 2026 - Hour 3

The Patrick Madrid Show

Relevant Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Patrick weighs artificial intelligence against faith, ethics, and everyday experience. Listeners question whether AI is truly intelligent, worry about instant gratification and lost human connection, and push Patrick to consider if digital tools deserve respect or if their dangers outweigh their usefulness. The conversation swerves from skepticism to hope, from libraries and coffee makers to the nature of the soul and the boundaries between man and machine.

Aaron – AI is massive power and it could corrupt absolutely (00:58)
Christopher - If we create genuinely intelligent systems, what role do they play in God's creation and what rights do they have? (04:02)
Mark - My comment regarding the AI dilemma is that everyone wants gratification and an instant win-win for themselves and AI facilitates that. (14:48)
Maria (email) – I welcome AI as it can give me a wider information base (22:30)
Tracey (email) – Humans will not be able to stop AI once it gains controls
Vanessa - I think AI is leading us to become more like computers. (24:55)
Thaddeus - I feel like we are too permissive with AI and what it is allowed to do. Should more Catholics enter the military to counter AI in military? (35:24)
Michelle - This is a tool of deception that can be used by the government to deceive us. (39:22)
Jeanine - I don't use computers. I have a cell phone for basic things. I was shocked that AI has had good Catholic answers that is better than the library. I thought the library was more prejudiced. (41:04)
David - Why do we keep Easter on Sunday? (45:47)
Rhonda - Would Jesus, Mary and Joseph be considered the first Catholics? (47:52)

Transcript

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0:00.0	And now at the fesest of Miss Ellie on Team Taco, we welcome you to the Patrick Madrid Catholic
0:15.5	Political Entertainment Show. April Fool's.
0:22.2	Yeah, I try to stay away from politics.
0:24.5	As best I can, anyway, 888-9149.
0:28.0	Aaron in Avondale, I'll come back to you briefly.
0:31.2	I think you were on the verge of expressing another thought, and we ran out of time.
0:35.4	So your concern, maybe that's not a big enough word,
0:39.7	but your opposition to maybe is the right word, artificial intelligence and the rise of
0:46.3	artificial intelligence has to do with, you mentioned surveillance state and other problems
0:51.8	that can arise from it. So did you want to finish that thought before we
0:54.9	have to press on? Yes, thank you for the opportunity. And I would say it's still a concern because
1:01.1	I haven't reflected deeply enough on this to reach an absolute decision. But as I was saying,
1:08.5	my brother owns a marketing company, and I've watched money exchange
1:13.7	hands because people are truly being influenced in very powerful ways to make decisions that
1:19.5	go against their own best interest. And when I look at AI, I also recognize, like you've been
1:26.1	saying, it's an instrument instrument but I just see it as
1:30.7	as this massive power and I keep coming back to absolute power corrupts absolutely
1:37.7	and the thing that I think does give me hope is one it's all by God's will.
1:47.1	Even if we want to destroy ourselves, he won't let us.
1:53.6	And I'm understanding now the resources involved in taking this to the degree that they want to,
1:56.5	I don't know the day is, that they want to take it. And we lack the infrastructure.
1:59.0	We lack the resources.
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