4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Friends, my favorite current TV show, “Mrs. Davis,” features an adventurous nun, a search for the Holy Grail, and an all-powerful algorithm. It also raises many interesting questions about artificial intelligence, God, free will, and our mystical union with Christ.
In today’s “Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss these themes and more.
(NOTE: This episode does not contain any major spoilers so it’s safe to listen before watching the series.)
A listener asks, is artificial intelligence a threat or an opportunity for evangelization?
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0:00.0 | Do you want some stupid algorithm that we've created? |
0:03.4 | Determine what I'm choosing and deciding. |
0:06.8 | It's one thing to say that Almighty God, |
0:09.1 | who's made the world out of love and guided out of love towards fulfillment is |
0:13.5 | proposing, you know, avenues to me. |
0:17.3 | So that's one thing. |
0:18.5 | Isaiah, Lord, you've accomplished all we have done. |
0:22.0 | Okay, that's good biblical |
0:25.3 | Providence, but like that these stupid algorithms on the iPhone and for, you know, for economic reasons and |
0:33.0 | political reasons that they're manipulating us. |
0:35.3 | That's a whole different game. We should stand against that. |
0:46.5 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat, the host and the senior publishing director at Word on Fire. |
0:53.4 | Today we're talking about a new show, which is Bishop Barron's favorite current show on television, |
0:58.7 | which features an adventurous none, a search for the Holy Grail and an all powerful algorithm. |
1:04.9 | It has many people talking about the impact of artificial intelligence and its relation to God and religion. |
1:11.4 | So we'll get to that in a moment. |
1:12.8 | But first Bishop, it's good to see you and welcome. |
1:16.4 | Thanks, Brandon. Always good to see you. |
1:18.9 | It's graduation season. |
1:21.1 | And usually, I don't know, usually, but the last several years you've been invited to give a commencement address or two different places. |
1:27.4 | And the most recent one was the great Hillsdale College, which is one of the shining lights in the classical education movement. |
1:35.6 | Tell us how that went. |
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