Note: they don't "think" or "reason"--and they don't accurately describe the (chain of) actions that they actually do perform. #ethics #AI #LLMs #tech #research

Every selfie is a younger you.

My friend Sara Joy Proppe helps churches make their building and property more inviting. These are the three Qs she asks pastors when she visits their church sites. Check out her work, Proximity Project, here… proximityprojectinc.com

For you in Chicago... eventbrite.com/e/faithtech-ch…

AI Utopians and Dystopians are very similar. They see similar AI capacities leading to different outcomes. A better question, different than Narayanan’, is whether you believe the hype about AI’s capacities in the first place.

Misaligned AI is a problem many Christians are worried about. Sure. Yes. Let’s align them. But to believe that aligned AIs are the solution—thats a failure of imagination. We can get the outputs right and still get the outcomes wrong.

AI and Faith Receives Key Grant, Launches Search for Executive Director aiandfaith.org/news/grant-awa…

I have a proposal that should solve our problems: News should be in seasons like all other TV shows. In the summer months they just show reruns to give us all a break. Reruns can be whatever. Greatest hits. Let’s relive the Iraq war for a summer. Then in the fall, new season.

“Every piece of literature is a sequence of words; and sounds (or their graphic equivalent) are words precisely because they carry the mind beyond themselves. That is what being a word means.” - C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

The "Catch up" feature in Slack's mobile app has been a game changer for me. Swipe left to "keep unread" and swipe right to "mark as read." Would love to see Gmail and other email clients create a similar feature.

Still never heard an AI chatbot say: “I don’t know.” 🚩!

“No amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story.” —Steve Jobs

Just got an email from a Boomer and in the signature it said… “Sent from my I-phone” which is totally giving Martin Buber vibes, à la “I-Thou” …which honestly is probably pretty accurate.

Cool, simple app developed at a recent hackathon. Enables church services to share "this week's Bible passage(s)" in a clean web app, using a QR code. So congregants can follow along. Click "Try Last Flow" to check it out. bibleflows.com

When a writer writes something I find confusing, I can spend fruitful effort seeking to understand the writer's mind. But when an AI generates something confusing, no amount of effort will yield another mind to me, and a sense of meaningless toil slowly begins to wash over me.

$294 billion in recent and projected spending on AI from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, according to the New York Times this morning.

“Like a 10-year-old webpage that had never felt the click of a mouse“ Cixin Liu, in “Curse 5.0” from *The Wandering Earth.*