Part 1: Summoning the Demon

"God in the Box: Part 1, Summoning the Demon" - The Ai revolution is here. This has been a long time coming (starting with the first mechanical counting machine), but only relatively recently has hit the common person. And it has done so with a swiftness unparalleled by any other innovation humans have come up with. Software that thinks, talks, creates, plans, works...thousands if not millions of times faster than humans. The promises are great, but so are the dangers and there are many voices who are involved in Ai development warning us of these dangers. Not just dangers inherent to the technology itself, but dangers in how people will use it and be used by it. Is suspicion of Ai just a Luddite stereotype? Is this just a technology that old fashioned people resist because they don't like change or is there something to the concern, especially as a Christian? Is the pursuit of Ai an attempt to use a "god in a box" to become gods ourselves? Are we helping humanity transcend or are we summoning the demon? This sermon is an introduction to Ai and Kyle's request that we try to filter the Ai phenomenon through a uniquely Christian perspective: the mind of Christ. Will Ai help us look more like Jesus, or more like the world?