The work of teaching God’s Word is primarily a spiritual discipline and only secondarily an academic one. AI can’t do it for us.
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I recently had lunch with my former pastor, Tony Merida. He’d heard that I work in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), and he was curious. “I get asked about AI all the time,” he told me. “My usual response is to joke, ‘Are you talking about Allen Iverson? I can answer that one.’ Then, I move on, because I don’t know what I don’t know.”
As I talked with Tony, we discussed all things AI, from its uses in the military to its use in ministry. It became clear to me that pastors need a technologically grounded and theologically informed framework for thinking about AI, one that understands the technology’s core limitation and discerns its usefulness and dangers for discipleship, and especially for preaching.
