How should Christians, in light of their faith, think about the recent explosion in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and other rapidly advancing technologies?
This was the question foremost on the minds of many of us who attended First Things’ recent Intellectual Retreat, entitled “Faith in a Technological Age.” Because First Things is most concerned with the heart of the matter, little of the excellent content touched directly on AI itself. Rather, the seminars explored the fundamental question of technology’s role in the biblical concepts of creation, the Fall, nature, and the “now and not yet” of human redemption, through readings that included, inter alia, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Hugh of St. Victor, Bonaventure, Mary Shelley, Martin Heidegger, and C. S. Lewis.
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