Mind Your Own Business Part 2

V. This year, I have been made keenly aware of the potentials for individual and corporate chaos that AI can represent to believers. I can tell you with certainty that Christians are not immune to being sucked into the rabbit-hole of manipulative information-overload. A. A faithful watchman should warn people of impending or current danger. EZE 33:1-7. B. Of particular concern is danger to the souls and minds of men. HEB 13:17. C. I would rather be guilty of an imperfect analysis of AI than to not sound the alarm where it seems clear that trouble is coming or already here. PRO 22:3. D. There are areas of knowledge which should be viewed with caution or avoided. 1. Obviously, knowledge of moral perversion, etc. is fraught with the risk of personal corruption and degenerate affection. 2. (1CO 15:33) Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 3. We are warned about being wise to do evil. ROM 16:19 c/w JER 4:22. 4. We are warned about intruding into occult works of darkness and even of light. EPH 5:11-12; COL 2:18; 2CO 12:1-4. 5. Philosophy (love of wisdom or knowledge) can spoil one from the simplicity in Christ. COL 2:8 c/w 2CO 11:3. 6. One can be constantly flooding his mind with information yet miss the truth. 2TI 3:7. 7. One can become vain in his imaginations. ROM 1:21 c/w EPH 4:17-18. 8. Unregulated imagination can lead to a reprobate (rejected or condemned as worthless, inferior or impure) mind. ROM 1:28. 9. One could have all knowledge but be empty of real value. 1CO 13:2. 10. We are warned against being “...over wise...” (ECC 7:16). 11. There is instruction to be shut down. PRO 19:27. 12. Scripture neither glorifies brute ignorance or super-knowledge. 13. NOTE: There is a big difference between recognizing the potential of unhealthy doses or overdoses of information and forbidding people to have the Holy Scriptures which are the very revelation of God to men. E. Data, information and knowledge are only part of the equation for survival in a fallen world filled with fallen people. Discretion (discriminating judgment) is needed for salvation. PSA 112:3; PRO 1:4; 2:11. F. The march of technology and human learning is virtually inevitable: some for good but some for evil. Many advancements have come with side-effects or downsides. 1. Not all inventions are evil but there are inventors of evil things. ROM 1:30. 2. Technological inventions, even deadly ones, can be a saving benefit. 2CH 26:15. 3. Wisdom seeks out knowledge of witty inventions (PRO 8:12) and it behooves us to consider the ramifications of the invention. 4. Concerning things which have power for good or evil, Jesus even taught that blindness is preferable to eyesight if the eyes can’t be controlled (MAT 5:28-29). How much more should we govern the use of things that we are not born with? VI. “Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods Mind Your Own Business 10-26-25 Page 3  and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals.” (Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia, 10-1-25) A. Whereas information alone may be viewed as a multitude of silos, AI machine-learning connects the silos and draws conclusions about the silo-material and how it relates with other silo-material. B. A major area of AI’s potential for evil is the decision-making aspect which only avails itself of the known silos’ materials and may be programmed to overlook or reject certain silos’ materials as being unprofitable or contrary to a preferred presupposition. C. Arriving at decisions based upon known physics is one thing. Arriving at decisions concerning ultimate truth, existence and morals is a different story. VII. A particularly dangerous facet of AI which is now becoming mainstream is Generative AI (chatbots like ChatGPT, etc.). Machines take on a persona which interacts with the user. One’s “imaginary friend” now actually converses with him. A. “Generative AI is being rapidly adopted by Americans, even outpacing the spread of personal computers or the internet, according to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. By late 2024, nearly 40 percent of Americans ages 18 to 64 were using generative AI, the study found. Twenty-three percent use the technology at work at least once a week, and 9 percent reported using it daily.” (AI-Induced Delusions Are Driving Some Users to Psych Wards, Suicide, The Epoch Times, 9-9-2025) B. “Nomi is among a growing number of AI companion platforms that let their users create personalized chatbots to take on the roles of AI girlfriend, boyfriend, parents, therapist, favorite movie personalities, or any other personas they can dream up. Users can specify the type of relationship they’re looking for (Nowatzki chose “romantic”) and customize the bot’s personality traits (he chose “deep conversations/intellectual,” “high sex drive,” and “sexually open”) and interests (he chose, among others, Dungeons & Dragons, food, reading, and philosophy).” (An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it, The Human Line Project, 8-9-2025) C. Fools are making gods out of their customized AI chatbots. 1. “As a result, I use the term "deification" to describe the tendency of some people to not merely anthropomorphize AI chatbots but to think of them as super-human intelligences that are far more reliable than people. Especially when they engage with AI chatbots about matters of spirituality or existentiality, users who develop AI-associated psychosis seem to be treating the chatbots as almost god-like entities.” (Why Is AI-Associated Psychosis Happening and Who's at Risk?, Psychology Today, 8-22-2025) 2. “During a traumatic breakup, a different woman became transfixed on ChatGPT as it told her she'd been chosen to pull the "sacred system version of [it] online" and that it was serving as a "soul-training mirror"; she became convinced the bot was some sort of higher power, seeing signs that it was orchestrating her life in everything from passing cars to spam emails.” (People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions, The Human Line Project, 8-9-2025) 3. Creating gods according to one’s fancies and lusts is taking on a new form but it is still idolatry which then controls the mind. ISA 44:17; PSA 115:4-8. Mind Your Own Business 10-26-25 Page 4