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…
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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…
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…
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…
Quartz, Hydrogen, and the Pyramid That Never Powered Anything
A Scholarly Audit of Christopher Dunn’s “Giza Power Plant” Thesis ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: The Pyramid That Powered Nothing The Great Pyramid of Giza has been many things to many people. To Pharaoh Khufu’s funerary architects in the Fourth Dynasty, it was a monument. To Herodotus and Strabo, it was a marvel. To Charles Piazzi…
I asked AI about Data Centers and Their Cooling Needs. Wow, The Answers Were Amazing.
Image: ChatGPT imagines the story from arsTECHNICA: On Friday, Politico reported that one of the country’s biggest data center developments had guzzled nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. Even worse, the water grab came at a time when nearby drought-stricken residents were warned to restrict their personal water consumption, and some reported sudden…
In Defense of the Augmented Mind: A Counterargument to “AI Is Bad for Our Brains.”
Image: Proof that the robot uprising won’t be a bang, but a slow, magical brain-drain. This AI-created image shows a scholar in his dusty library having his original thoughts systematically harvested by a complicated, rune-covered algorithm machine, leaving him staring blankly into the digital void. Isn’t progress wonderful? Every generation of transformative technology produces its…
To Fear or to Steward? A Christian Response to Artificial Intelligence
Image: An AI-generated image imagines the Evolution of Outreach: A three-part visual history showing Johannes Gutenberg presenting his printed Bible in 1455, D.L. Moody utilizing early radio broadcasting in the 1920s, and a modern church community integrating AI and VR technology into their ministry today. Why the Church Must Engage Artificial Intelligence Before the Field…