ChatGPT and Return of God: AI as an Unexpected Apologist

For decades, many assumed technology would accelerate secularization. People feared that artificial intelligence, in particular, would be the cold instrument of a transhumanist future, erasing the last remnants of faith. Yet, ironically, AI is now functioning as an apologist for God. A recent exchange between British atheist Alex O’Connor (“Cosmic Skeptic”) and ChatGPT, later reviewed by renowned Christian philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig on his Reasonable Faith podcast, demonstrated just how deeply the classical arguments for God are woven into our intellectual tradition.