You shall have no other gods before me. (â€â€Exodus‬ â€20‬:â€3‬)
I'm using AI every day to do my most exceptional work for the glory of God and the good of others. But four years into the latest generation of these tools, I've seen enough peril in my own use of them to feel the need to articulate some biblical guardrails around how to use AI in God-honoring ways.
In this series, I’ll share five such guardrails that extend beyond the obvious black and white “don'ts” of AI (EX: feeding AI confidential information, using it to spread disinformation, etc.). These five guardrails will focus on the less obvious, far more common, and in many cases, far more dangerous ways AI can pull us away from God and others.
Before we get to the first guardrail, a very brief theology of technology is in order. Throughout Scripture, we see that God loves technology, which Bible teacher Tony Reinke defines as “the reordering of raw materials for human purposes,” which is exactly what God created us to do in ...