This Grok-generated image captures the concept through a colossal AI figure, a dark, sorcerer-like entity, using glowing data chains to pull modern humanity back into a torch-lit, plague-haunted medieval landscape of crumbling castles and burning knowledge. The Leviathan Problem: Can Washington Govern a Technology It Barely Understands? ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Summer the Machines…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
“Get Your Own Dust”: Why Only God Can Breathe Life into Man
You Can Code a Chatbot, But You Can’t Code a Soul Get Your Own Dust For decades, the materialist crowd told us we’re nothing more than leftover stardust, a lucky accident cooked up over billions of years by blind chemistry and natural selection. Now fast-forward to 2021. Today’s materialists, the folks leading the AI charge,…
The Gospel According to Peter Thiel: A Billionaire’s Antichrist Meets the Bible
PHOTO: Google Gemini imagines an interesting interpretation of this quote by Michael Christensen at Religion News Service: “This raises the unsettling question: Is Thiel exposing the Antichrist, or announcing it?” One might be tempted to ask, “Where is Thiel getting his information?” When a Billionaire Reads the Apocalypse: Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and the Book…
No Ghost in the Machine: A Christian and Secular Rebuttal to “Conscious AI”
Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not, and Will Never Be, Conscious ❧ ✦ ❧ The Clockwork and the Clock On October 19, 2026, Religion Unplugged published an analysis by John Mac Ghlionn under a title built to stop the scroll: “AI Might Be Conscious. If So, God Help Us.” The piece closes with a genuinely memorable…
Is China really why America must win the AI race?
China is why America must win the AI race A recent AI-focused Wall Street Journal editorial had a critical insight: “If what they see in their shops is truly dangerous, by all means be responsible and ‘align’ development.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who criticized Anthropic’s proposal, recently noted: “We want America to succeed.” As Mark…
The Missing Rulebook: Why autonomous AI cannot simply be programmed to be safe—and how humans can stay in command
An AI Investigates AI: What the Machines Cannot Promise About Themselves The Missing Rulebook: Why No One Has Programmed AI to Protect Us—Yet Autonomous AI agents now plan, act, and occasionally defy the people who deploy them. The reasons simple safety rules keep failing are more revealing than the failures themselves. Introduction: The Agent That…
The Arithmetic of Ambition: Personnel, Pipeline, and Price in New York City’s School AI Moratorium
A critique of the Mamdani administration’s 2026–27 generative artificial intelligence policy for New York City Public Schools, written from the standpoint of a career in technology education and integrative STEM. ◆ ◆ ◆ I. A Policy Announced Eight Days Before the Bell On September 2, 2026 — eight days before the first day of classes — Mayor…
Algorithms in the Sanctuary: Artificial Intelligence, Spiritual Authority, and the Pastoral Office in a Disrupted Age
AI, the Soul, and the Christian Imagination I. The Hour at Which We Stand In late February 2026, the Barna Group, working in partnership with the technology firm Gloo, published a finding that should arrest the attention of every Christian leader in the English-speaking world. Drawn from a survey of more than fifteen hundred American…
Athens, Algorithms, and the “Gift of Possibility”: A Christian Reads an LDS Apostle on Artificial Intelligence
Can a Machine Have a “Moral Compass”? A Mormon Apostle Says Yes — An Orthodox Christian Says Wait ❦ ❧ ❦ Introduction: A Lamb a Day on the Acropolis Elder Gerrit W. Gong opened his Athens address with a parable Henry Kissinger liked to tell. A visitor to a zoo marvels at a lion and…
The Trillion-Dollar AI Gamble
Inside the Money Machine Powering the AI Revolution — and the Voices Warning It Could Burst An Investigative Narrative ❖ ❖ ❖ Somewhere in the American desert tonight, electricity is pouring into a building the size of a small town, humming through racks of silicon that are individually worth more than a luxury home. Multiply…