In a recent essay in The Atlantic, Jonathan Merritt laments that theologians and Christian leaders, including Pope Francis, have not addressed what he claims will be the greatest challenge that Christianity has ever faced: Artificial Intelligence, or “AI.”
In his view, intelligent machines threaten to overturn many Christian beliefs, a trial that theologians seem blind to because “they're stuck rehashing old questions instead of focusing on the coming ones.”
Such a criticism would be devastating if true, but is it?
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