Wednesday, January 29, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 11:35)
A New A.I. Technology is Throwing the Market Into a Frenzy: China’s New A.I. Model Chip is Changing the Production of A.I.

Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model by The Wall Street Journal (Raffaele Huang)
The Day DeepSeek Turned Tech and Wall Street Upside Down by The Wall Street Journal (Gunjan Banerji, Asa Fitch, Karen Langley)

Part II (11:35 - 18:07)
The Ethics of Simulating Conversing With the Dead Through A.I.: New Documentary Points to Deep Moral Issues Behind Artificial Intelligence

‘Eternal You’ and the Ethics of Using A.I. to ‘Talk’ to Dead Loved Ones by The New York Times (Alissa Wilkinson)

Part III (18:07 - 24:40)
Leader of Euthanasia Movement Dies at 94: Derek Humphry, the Hemlock Society, and the Morally Evil Argument of ‘The Final Exit’

Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94 by The New York Times (Michael S. Rosenwald)

Part IV (24:40 - 26:44)
Gospel Hope in a Nihilistic World: The Only Refutation to the Culture of Death is the Gospel of Jesus Christ

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, January 29, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.6	Technology is one of the most important dimensions of humanity, and this goes back throughout all of human existence.
0:22.0	Christians understand it to be a part of the Dominion mandate found even in Genesis chapter 1. There are basic
0:27.9	definitions for technology, which comes down to using just about anything for a purpose, devising
0:34.0	something for a purpose, but high technology is what we generally refer to now when we use
0:39.7	the term. We're not talking about a screwdriver. We are talking about, say, artificial intelligence.
0:46.1	Most of us, when we use the term technology or technological these days, we're talking about something
0:51.2	that human beings, just a matter of, say, a decade or a generation
0:55.3	at least ago would not have understood. We also need to take into account that technology
1:00.9	doesn't advance, it doesn't move forward in any kind of symmetry. It moves forward with giant
1:07.1	leaps. There are long periods of human history, and you can include most of the medieval
1:11.8	period, for that matter. You look at human history, long periods in which very little
1:16.1	technological change took place. That's not to say there was no technological change. It is to
1:21.8	say you're not talking about any major technological change that took place during that era.
1:27.1	On the other hand, you look at a
1:28.6	brief period of time, say the late 19th into the early 20th centuries, and you had human beings very
1:34.5	quickly changing from a mode of transportation that was basically as fast as feet or as fast as a horse
1:41.0	to as a train to as fast as a car, and you know what happened soon thereafter? As fast as a jet, to as fast as a train, to as fast as a car, and you know what happens soon
1:44.8	thereafter, as fast as a jet airplane. But it's also noteworthy to consider the fact that when
1:50.9	I was born, jet aircraft already existed, and even though they're safer and more highly
1:56.5	technological in their advancement, the reality is human beings don't travel much faster as they're
2:02.5	moving through the air in jet airliners. They go just about the same speed. The shift from just
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