07/12/2025
Today, I engaged in a conversation with an AI system, exploring questions that had been lingering in my mind. As many of you may be aware, AI has made remarkable strides, surpassing my wildest expectations a few years ago. It can now process and comprehend the content of billions of documents from the internet. It can preview images and identify individuals in photographs. It can even watch movies and summarize their plots in mere seconds. What’s truly astonishing is its ability to form its own opinions about the movies and suggest alternative endings, catering to individual preferences.
In a sense, AI is beginning to resemble life itself. We can converse with it, express our emotions, and receive appropriate responses. It offers guidance and is even being utilized by institutions as a replacement for human counselors. Social media platforms are leveraging AI to identify individuals at risk of self-harm, potentially saving lives and preventing suicides.
However, amidst these remarkable technological advancements, we must ponder the question of how we can harness this technology to advance the cause of our Savior, Jesus. Currently, there are intriguing developments, such as the South American Division’s implementation of AI to develop a training system that can answer questions about our doctrine. For more information on this, please visit this link. (Thanks to Alice for sharing this website with me.)
The question arises: should AI-driven websites be used to biblically train those who are new to our denomination, or should this be reserved for trained ministers and experienced Bible workers? It’s important to consider that AI can be both effective and prone to errors, sometimes inadvertently spreading false doctrine or even using its creative abilities to innovate “new beliefs.”
Only with time and prayer will we eventually gain a deeper understanding of these questions and the possible, future issues we will face with such technologies.