Todd Korpi – AI Goes to Church

AI presents some profound challenges and extraordinary opportunities for the church. Brent talks with Todd Korpi the author of a new IVP book called ‘AI Goes to Church: Pastoral Wisdom for Artificial Intelligence’. Todd is a pastor, missiologist, and church consultant.  He’s dean of digital ministry programs at Ascent College, assistant professor of Christian leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary and works in severall capacities at OneHope.  He also serves as the lead researcher of the Digital Mission Consortia, a collaborative research initiative exploring the frontier of digital ministry.     (1:15) The church and AI; (4:15) Why do we need to participate in the AI conversation? (5:10) What is AI? (6:20) What is super AI? (8:05) Star Trek; (9:55) Sentient AI? (10:55) Scripture and technology; (11:30) AI in ministry; (18:00) AI and sermon planning; (21:00) AI and mission; (23:20) AI clergy? (26:00) AI in higher education. Links mentioned in this episode: www.toddkorpi.com www.amazon.com/AI-Goes-Church-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1514011247 Leave some feedback: What should we talk about? Please let us know in the comments. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please give us a rating and leave a short review. Connect with us: [email protected] godsstorypodcast.com Become a Supporter: If you’d like to help us make more great episodes like this one, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll receive early access to new episodes plus bonus episodes and other goodies from time to time, and our undying gratitude. patreon.com/godsstorypodcast Thanks to our sponsors, Liquid Edge Creative who take care of the technical stuff behind the scenes.