Nearly 20 years ago, I took an artificially intelligent cyborg to vacation Bible school.
At the time, I was teaching a Christian ethics class at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and I had my students confront the question of AI in their final exam.
I asked them to imagine their future great-grandson, “Joshua,” as a minister within what used to be called the Southern Baptist Convention (but is now the “Galactic Immersionist Federation”). In this imagined future, Pastor Joshua sits across the desk from Aiden, a little boy going to the church’s summer outreach program. Aiden wants to know how he can become a Christian. He wants to repent of his sins, put his faith in Jesus, and go to heaven when he dies.
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