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AI and faith: the questions that won't go away

From the AI in Faith podcast and beyond — the running questions about how AI is reshaping religious practice, theological reflection, and personal faith.

Faith communities are working out what AI means for them in real time — pastors using ChatGPT for sermon prep, churches deploying chatbots for member care, theologians grappling with what consciousness means in a machine-learning context. This file collects the running coverage from the AI in Faith podcast and adjacent reporting.

Latest in the series
Anthropic Has a Priest. That Should Make You Think. — editorial illustration
Faith

Anthropic Has a Priest. That Should Make You Think.

Father Brendan McGuire left the tech industry to become a Catholic priest — then walked back into Silicon Valley to help build AI's moral compass. His presence inside one of the world's most powerful AI labs is either reassuring or alarming, depending on what you think is missing from AI development.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
I Used AI to Study the Bible for a Month. Here's What I Got Wrong First. — editorial illustration
Faith

I Used AI to Study the Bible for a Month. Here's What I Got Wrong First.

ChatGPT can unlock centuries of biblical scholarship in seconds. It can also quietly flatten the mystery out of a text that has survived precisely because it refuses to be flattened. The difference is entirely in how you use it.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
AI Is Very Good at Making Decisions. That's Exactly the Problem. — editorial illustration
Faith

AI Is Very Good at Making Decisions. That's Exactly the Problem.

We have built tools that can optimize any choice we hand them. In doing so, we have made it much easier to avoid the kind of decisions that actually matter — the ones that require surrender, not analysis.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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  1. · Faith
    We're Terrible at Sharing Our Faith. AI Won't Fix That — But It Might Help.
    Most Christians who want to share what they believe are stopped not by a lack of conviction, but by a failure of translation. They know what they mean. They have no idea how to say it to someone who doesn't already agree.
  2. · Faith
    AI Doesn't Have a Theology. It Has Something Worse — Yours, Averaged.
    When you ask AI about faith, it doesn't consult God. It consults the most common answers human beings have written down. For most questions, that's fine. For the ones that matter most, it's a problem you need to understand before you hand your spiritual life to the model.
  3. · Faith
    No, AI Won't Replace Your Pastor. But It Will Expose What Your Pastor Actually Does.
    Every generation asks whether the latest technology will make clergy obsolete. The question is always wrong. The more interesting one is what it reveals about the irreducible core of spiritual leadership that no technology has ever touched.

Series questions

Should pastors use AI?
Most pastors who've used AI report it's useful for research, draft sermon outlines, and administrative tasks but a poor substitute for the pastoral discernment work that requires presence with people. The honest answer is: yes for the back-of-house, no for the relational core.
Does AI have theology?
AI doesn't have beliefs in the way persons do, but the models reflect the theology embedded in their training data — which means they tend to produce a generic, averaged, broadly-Christian-flavored theology when prompted unspecifically. The risk is treating that average as authoritative when it's not.
Where can I hear more on AI and faith?
The AI in Faith podcast (linked from /podcast) is the primary venue. Episodes feature pastors, theologians, and AI researchers in extended conversation about specific tensions and use cases.
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