Reading for entertainment alone will become increasingly rare. I expect we will return to a culture where people who read are mainly looking for new ideas.
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Some tech bros are even questioning the corporate benefits from generative AI, a year after academic analyses started questioning them.
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AI “immigrants” like me tend to approach artificial intelligence with a healthy measure of skepticism. AI natives, who grew up with it, should learn this too.
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Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every two years. But Moore’s Law must eventually stop at the Planck length.
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Thanks to AI chatbots, a phrase I probably coined phrase has become so recognizable that most people think C. S. Lewis himself said it!
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The simulation argument quietly replaces one proposition with the other. It begins with evidence about the world we observe and ends with a conclusion about a world we can no longer observe.
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The addiction of constantly scrolling is like we are forever searching for something in a kind of eternal loop to reach a perfected digital fix of some sort.
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The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.
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The frequency of AI slop is too high for AI to be successful and there are few solutions, except to wait until the labs produce better AI products.
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After a police shooting, one answer may let the officer off; a different one may result in homicide charges. But both answers might be “truthful.”
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Why would a military force decide to use a slightly different caliber of bullets from the one used by the enemy force?
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Human beings possess a unique and powerful innovative energy that can bring forth new things that did not exist before.
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After spending three days conversing with Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about a range of topics, noted atheist Richard Dawkins acknowledged that he was now open to the possibility that artificial intelligence may possess consciousness.
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The way AI is creeping into our cultural and religious institutions is worth keeping an eye on, especially since so many of us look to these places to understand what it means to be human in the first place.
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LLMs’ impressive outputs demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithms; they do not demonstrate that the AI has invented new computational methods.
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A few of us suggest individual users should know the risks and make the choices, leaving both government agencies and multi-national computer servers out of the picture.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, keep in mind that every termite is doing the same thing.
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Let’s say robots were to become sentient, humans would still be the cause of that consciousness, even when they began to self-replicate, their understanding of the world would still come from humanity.
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The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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In March of 2026, the horror novel Shy Girl was pulled from publication after the author was suspected of using AI to help her write it.
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