Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the issue of moral agency and A.I. chatbots, Christian confusion about A.I., why Christians must get the Imago Dei right, and Greece’s potential social media ban for children under 15.
Part I (00:14 – 08:47)
Can Claude Become a Child of God? The Massive Moral Issue of the Moral Agency of A.I.
- Can AI be a ‘child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s meeting with Christian leaders. by The Washington Post (Gerrit De Vynck and Nitasha Tiku)
So-Called ‘Christian Leaders’ Consult Anthropic for Moral Character of A.I.: There is a Massive Confusion Here – Now A.I. Has a ‘Soul’?
Part III (18:07 – 20:56)
‘In the Image of God He Created Them’: Christians Must Always Get the Imago Dei Right, Especially as the World Around Us Gets It Very Wrong
Part IV (20:56 – 27:03)
Greece is Expected to Ban Social Media for Children: Another Country is Attempting to Prevent Social Media’s Harms to Its Children
- Greece Plans to Block Social Media for Children Under 15 by The New York Times (Niki Kitsantonis)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 15, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.1 | Well, several huge worldview issues for our consideration today. They're all just landing on us at once. |
| 0:20.0 | That's pretty much the shape of the world these days. We're going to start out with Claude. Perhaps you know Claude. Perhaps you've heard of Claude. I'm not talking about Claude, the human being. I'm talking about Claude, the Anthropic chatbot. And we're talking about Anthropic, the big artificial intelligence company. By the way, it is valued right now at $380 billion. |
| 0:39.5 | You got that right. |
| 0:40.4 | B, $380 billion. |
| 0:43.2 | Claude is its rather famous now chatbot. |
| 0:46.5 | And we are talking about whether or not it is a moral agent, whether or not it has some form of consciousness or might have some sort of consciousness and what kind of |
| 0:54.8 | moral intelligence it can or might or should have now okay the headline in the washington |
| 1:00.2 | posts reads this way quote anthropic asked christian leaders for advice on claude's moral future so again |
| 1:06.1 | remember we're not talking about a human being we're not talking about a human claude we're talking |
| 1:10.5 | about a chatbot emulating a human being but We're not talking about a human clawed. We're talking about a chatbot |
| 1:11.5 | emulating a human being. But then the subhead of the article asked the question, can AI be a child |
| 1:17.7 | of God? The answer to that, by the way, is no. And then we are told that the report's going to take |
| 1:22.8 | us inside Anthropics meeting with Christian leaders. Okay. The Christian leaders are later described as |
| 1:28.1 | religious leaders. We are told that they were invited in order to give guidance on building a |
| 1:33.0 | moral chatbot. Okay. So these are leaders identified as Christian leaders, religious leaders, |
| 1:39.4 | invited by Anthropic for this conversation. So let me just say that means the company invited |
| 1:44.0 | the people who would tell them what they wanted to hear. That's the way this conversation. So let me just say that means the company invited the people |
| 1:44.5 | who would tell them what they wanted to hear. That's the way this works. Now, there are massive, |
| 1:49.4 | massive issues here. So number one, we're told right up front that this is a chat bot with a discussion |
| 1:55.5 | about its moral future. And in this article, there are open questions as to whether or not it has already |
| 2:01.3 | achieved some sort of consciousness. Now, in Christian terms, this is raising the issue of whether |
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