It's Thursday, February 19th, 2006.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing,

a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

One of the biggest issues we are handed these days, and frankly,

we're handed this issue virtually every day,

is the stewardship of the digital life,

stewardship of digital technologies. Increasingly, those are getting complex. And so one of the things

we need to look at is about some current debates and developments on the issue of the addictive

nature of social media. That's one interesting thing, and in particular

when it comes to young people. The second big thing that we just need to talk about from time to

time, because this requires constant update is the entire world of artificial intelligence.

And so I'm going to begin there. And right now, of course, all over the media, you have news

stories, prognostications about some kind of

eschatological development with artificial intelligence, all conscious life may be wiped out by

some form of rogue artificial intelligence. You've got a lot of this. And by the way, one of the

interesting things about this is that you have people from kind of the far left ecological fringe and people from

the anti-digital political fringe that are kind of coming together in some of these common

apocalyptic scenarios. I'm not going to talk about those scenarios today. That's really outside

the proper concern of the present.

But in the present, there's some very interesting things that are interesting in terms of issues raised by Christian theology, issues raised by biblical truth.

So, for example, the Wall Street Journal recently ran an article.

Here's the headline, why AI chatbots can't be trusted for financial advice.

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