Some more thoughts around metapastoring… I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok to ‘Create an image of a Pastor helping someone in grief.’ You can see the images attached. To be honest, I was glad they weren’t all middle-aged white guys. Gemini (owned by Google)...
Well done on completing the assignment. Unfortunately, I see very few hints of humanity in the text. It lacks faults, fluctuations, and unfamiliar phrasing. Put simply, your submission is too flat. Too familiar. Too generated. And not really generative. Not generative...
Yes, I believe the Christian Church is ripe for a significant split (and it is AI-assisted). [ I appreciate from the outset that my Christian/religious peers and my AI-interested university/academic peers and may not fully ‘get’ this collision of thoughts,...
The hype and rhetoric behind the current AI boom feels very religious to me. I became a Christian in the 90s, as a teen. It was a decision I made for myself, but in retrospect, I can’t say the compelling catalyst was the unfailing love of God. At the time, there...
This may be the strangest opening to a post about the destructive use of generative AI that you have read. I am in the presence of the dead and dying regularly. I work part-time as an aged-care chaplain, providing spiritual care to those in the very last season of...
