3.25 Mike Kirby, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum • Interview • "Artificial Intelligence (AI): Tool, Image Bearer, Or Temptation?"

Listen in as Mike Kirby joins David Schrock and Stephen Wellum to discuss the longform essay "Artificial Intelligence (AI): Tool, Image Bearer, Or Temptation?" which he co-authored with Matthew Emadi.

Timestamps

• Intro – 00:52
• Matt Emadi and Mike Kirby and Their Work on Their Article for COA - 03:54
• The Amoral Nature of Technology? - 08:24
• How These Tools are Being Brought into the World Today - 10:53
• What Are Some Ethical Boundaries That are Being Discussed? - 13:12
• A.I. Winter and What Season We Are In Today - 18:45
• Counseling the Church on the Speed at Which A.I. is Accelerating - 24:28
• A.I. Becoming Self-Conscious? - 27:55
• A.I. & Embodiment - 34:30
• Transhumanism and Systematic Theology - 37:40
• How Much Does Science Fiction Play into the Development of A.I. and What Do We Need to Brace For? - 44:58
• Counsel to Those In, or Wanting to Be In, the Field of A.I. - 49:50
• Pitfalls of Having All These Technologies Around Us - 52:37
• Outro - 54:42 

Resources to Click

• “Artificial Intelligence (AI): Tool, Image Bearer, or Temptation?” – Mike Kirby & Matthew Emadi
• “Does Power Corrupt or Enable? When and Why Power Facilitates Self-Interested Behavior” – Katherine A. De Celles, D. Scott DeRue, Joshua D. Margolis and Tara L. Ceramic
• “The History of Artificial Intelligence: Complete AI Timeline” – Ron Karjian
• “Google’s Gemini Controversy Explained: AI Model Criticized by Musk and Others Over Alleged Bias” – Antonio Pequeño IV
• “’Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ images of Founding Fathers, popes, Vikings” – Thomas Barrabi
• “Google pauses Gemini’s Ability to Generate AI images of People after Diversity Errors” – Tom Warren
• Theme of the Month: What Has God Wrought?
• Give to Support the Work 

Books to Read

• The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology – Ray Kurzweil
• From the Garden to the City” The Place of Technology in the Story of God – John Dyer
• Evangelical Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today: Fourth Edition – John Jefferson Davis
• God, Technology and the Christian Life – Tony Reinke
• The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity – James Thacker
• Christian Ethics: Contemporary Issues & Options – Norman L. Geisler
• Future Shock – Alvin Toffler