Will Artificial Intelligence Make Creative People More Efficient? [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today Chris raises the question expressed in the title of this episode. Enthusiasts for Artificial Intelligence promise that chatbots will make everyone more efficient and productive--even novelists and scholars. But is that really possible considering what history's most famous creatives tell us about how they went about their work? People who've looked into their daily routines such as Oliver Burkeman (author of, Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals) and Mason Currey (author of, Daily Rituals) inform us that people like Charles Darwin and Flannery O'Connor only worked 3 to 4 hours a day on the things we remember them for. The rest of the time they did other things--mostly unrelated. So, would they have gotten more done with the help of artificial intelligence? The Pugs have their doubts. Tune in and find out why.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Theology podcast. It's just the guys today, the three of us, and in case
0:09.0	you're a first-time listener, we'll introduce ourselves. If you're a long-term listener,
0:13.2	you know the routine. You can just kind of fast forward. But anyways, I'm C.R. Wiley. I'm a pastor.
0:18.2	I serve a church in the Pacific Northwest, just outside Portland, Oregon.
0:22.3	And I have written a number of things, number of books. My most recent book is in the House of Tom Bombadale.
0:28.1	And I'm a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine. Okay, enough about me. How about you, Tom?
0:34.2	I'm Tom Price. I'm a theologian and Christian ethicist. I teach both at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and I am an ordained ministry serving a church in Plainville, Connecticut.
0:46.3	All right, Plainville, one of our favorite places because of J. Timothy Tavern with the best wings.
0:51.3	The best wings on the planet.
0:53.3	That's right. All right, Glenn.
0:57.0	I'm Glenn Sunshine. I am a senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.
1:02.7	I work for Reflections Ministries. I have my own 501c3, every square inch ministries, eSquare
1:10.1	inch.org.
1:11.1	I'm on substack, and I forgot the thing I usually start with.
1:15.7	I'm a retired history professor specializing in Renaissance and Reformation, Europe.
1:22.2	Okay, great.
1:23.2	Well, why don't we go into the subject of the day?
1:25.7	It's my day.
1:26.6	And I want to talk about something
1:27.8	I've been thinking a lot about because I'm working on a book on artificial intelligence,
1:32.8	transhumanism. And it's looking like it won't be out before Christmas. And the reason why it won't
1:38.5	be out before Christmas is I was surprised to learn November and December are not good months to bring out a book.
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