Tag: Tool trope

A futuristic eco-city with verdant vegetation and a glowing green energy source situated atop a giant computer chip in a detailed urban landscape vision.

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Doug Smith
Date
November 9, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion

Tagged
C.S. Lewis (1898‒1965), Gloo, Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Pat Gelsinger, That Hideous Strength (book 1945), Tool trope, Tower of Babel}

Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots As a Force For Good? Part 2

_{The claims being made for what these bots can do for ministry would lead us into dangerous territory} _{Doug Smith
November 9, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion}

We need to remember what Christian thinkers like C.S. Lewis and Marshall McLuhan have thought and said about technology-driven utopias.

Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots As A Force For Good? Part 1

_{In response to claims from a Christian ministry, as a Christian software developer, I offer some serious cautions} _{Doug Smith
November 2, 2025

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Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Mental health, Relationships}

A technology like generative AI, which deceives us by feeling person-like, harms us in ways that are categorically different from any other.

Vintage woodworking tools on the workbench

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Doug Smith
Date
January 26, 2025

Categorized
Addiction, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Bootup script, BS as philosophical concept, ChatGPT, Fear of missing out (FOMO), FOMO, Hallucinations, Humans as bootloaders, Large Language Models (creativity issue), Neil Postman, Non-Computable You (Discovery Institute Press 2022), Sam Altman on the merge, Tool trope, Understanding Media (1964)}

AI and the Destructive Lies of the Tool Trope

_{You've heard this, right? “Technology isn’t good or bad; it’s a tool, it’s just how you use it that matters.” False.} _{Doug Smith
January 26, 2025

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Addiction, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Because LLM AIs never understand a single word, image, video, or line of code, they can’t know whether anything they say is right, true, or good.