AI Is Made In Our Image. Here's Why That's a Problem

Microsoft Bing Chat and AI chat applications are seen on a mobile device (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto).

For Christians, AI poses its own set of questions: Is it bad to use AI to write a prayer or outline a sermon? Is AI able to provide counseling and spiritual direction for congregants seeking discernment and spiritual care? Can AI achieve personhood, and if so, what should our commitments to caring for them be? I found some guiding answers in Noreen L. Herzfeld’s book The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age.

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