With Jake Carlson

Episode 34 of the PEP Talk podcast, hosted by Andy Bannister, titled "With Jake Carlson" was published on March 19, 2025 and runs 22 minutes.

March 19, 2025 ·22m · PEP Talk

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Summary

Down through the ages, the Christian message has been shared via new technology, from Gutenberg's Bible to TikTok. But with recent advancements in AI, what would it look like to share the gospel with a chatbot? Today on PEP Talk, Andy and Gavin find out about one project to explore the possibilities and challenges. Try it out now at apologist.ai [https://apologist.ai/en] or try bots focussing on Islamic [https://alim.apologist.ai/en] or scientific [https://isaac.apologist.ai/en] backgrounds. Jake Carlson is the founder of The Apologist Project [https://apologistproject.org/], a nonprofit that develops conversational AIs for Christian apologetics and evangelism. Jake grew up as a missionary kid in China, where he first became interested in apologetics and Christian worldview study. He has over 25 years experience in software product development, leading product and engineering teams in both small startups and Big Tech companies. Jake founded The Apologist Project two years ago to develop digital products to further the Kingdom. The Apologist Project recently won 1st place at the Indigitous #HACK [https://hack.indigitous.org/] event — as well as 2nd place in challenge at the Gloo AI & the Church hackathon — for its work developing a Muslim-serving chatbot.

Episode Description

Try it out now at apologist.ai or try bots focussing on Islamic or scientific backgrounds.

Jake Carlson is the founder of The Apologist Project, a nonprofit that develops conversational AIs for Christian apologetics and evangelism. Jake grew up as a missionary kid in China, where he first became interested in apologetics and Christian worldview study. He has over 25 years experience in software product development, leading product and engineering teams in both small startups and Big Tech companies. Jake founded The Apologist Project two years ago to develop digital products to further the Kingdom. The Apologist Project recently won 1st place at the Indigitous #HACK event — as well as 2nd place in challenge at the Gloo AI & the Church hackathon — for its work developing a Muslim-serving chatbot.