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God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27, ESV).
Let’s consider, “Will artificial intelligence be good or bad?”
There are differing opinions. One in-the-know tech guru writes, “Artificial intelligence will augment our intelligence.” While the most in-the-know physicist of the last century, Stephen Hawking, writes, “The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
HHHHMMMHHM!
We can get a whiff of understanding into the good and bad of AI by considering the origin of human intelligence. In Genesis, we have God creating human intelligence and then the temptation story and Adam saying, “The man said, ‘The woman whom You gave me to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
Human intelligence, after Satan’s temptation, quickly deteriorated to denial and blame. With AI (and the evil one still afoot), do we really think fallen people will be able to control it? We know, by studying the Bible, that the evil one will ultimately, just like he did with human intelligence, poison the apple of AI.
Uh, oh!
However, even when fallen, aren’t we glad that we have human intelligence? I must admit that during my 49 years as a pastor, I often suspected the quality of human intelligence in many parishioners. Similarly, artificial intelligence will be tremendously helpful — until it’s not.
Some idiotic in-the-know scientist wrote, “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” While a more compassionate in-the-know expert says, “Artificial intelligence will be the ultimate version of Google® — the ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand everything that you wanted, and it would give it to you.”
Okay, the OG (Old Guy, that’s me), a not-so-much-in-the-know blogger, finds something disconcerting about a plethora of robots running around the world acting like Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. And I also find it sort of smarmy having a machine catering to my every need.
So, there’s a “yes” and “no” to AI, and unfortunately, it’s too late to pull the plug.
But what should concern us all, both those-in-the-know and those not interested in being in-the-know, is that “reasoning” AI will soon be upon us. As one doomsayer-in-the-know said, “Every nation (especially the U.S.A. and China) is in a race to ‘reasoning’ AI and the one who gets there first will unleash an AI that will know everything on the web and can use that information in milliseconds to take over all other computers in the entire world.”
It doesn’t matter if the U.S.A. gets “reasoning” AI 50 seconds after China, because with the speed of quantum computers, it’s too late. As Jesus taught, “Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved.”
The end of human and artificial intelligence is the same — Jesus returns, our perfect-in-the-know Savior.