Such a thoughtful and thought-provoking article. Thank you! It's a scary time in so many ways. For those of us who take the Bible to be God's actual words to us, His beloved, the whole of the beginning of John 1 brings much comfort and speaks of a higher truth that is real, and relevant to everything going on.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Thank you for writing this. I can feel the weight behind it…not as outrage, but as a sober grief.
And I resonate with what you’re naming. Every tool is useful…until it’s captured by power and used for control. That pattern isn’t new. It’s ancient. Humanity has always been willing to hand itself over when fear is loud enough and comfort is close enough.
What I keep coming back to is this. Apart from union with God, we bend toward fear…and fear almost always becomes control. Not because we’re cartoon villains, but because we’re trying to survive. We’re trying to secure ourselves. We’re trying to outrun limitation, vulnerability, toil, and death.
Chesterton said it perfectly in the introduction to Orthodoxy: “We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.”
Because when we choose comfort as the highest good, we almost always choose control right along with it.
The Babel connection feels hauntingly relevant. One language. One project. One tower. It looks like unity, but it isn’t communion. It’s humanity attempting to become safe without surrender…whole without love…godlike without God.
And yet even here, I don’t want to surrender to despair. The Logos isn’t an algorithm. The Word isn’t a machine. The future isn’t finally held by systems or “collective brains.”
It’s held by a Person.
Grateful you put words to this. It’s the kind of piece that doesn’t just inform…it calls people awake.
Thanks for reading it. It’s very complicated to understand why it feels like we’re being replaced, but all the people who could help stop it, are cheering on the demise.
It’s really wild. I feel like no one wants to ask if this is the right thing for humanity. It’s as if someone just deemed it as the only option. It’s very heavy to me.
People everywhere ARE “feeling the weight of doom”. EVERYONE I know recognizes the dangers of AI. There are ordinary people fighting against the data centers popping up all over the country, only to be shut down by city councils, state legislators, and executive orders. Believers in God’s Word recognize the parallels to Babel and dread the coming judgement, but also take comfort in knowing God is still on His throne and is sovereign over ALL… even AI. That does not mean we may not suffer. But as believers we are not alone. God will not leave us or forsake us. The evils of this world just make the promise of eternity with Christ more precious.
"It's humanity attempting to become safe without surrender" is such a good phrase to encapsulate this idea. The difference between surrender to AI, to government, to 'society', compared to surrender to God is so striking and critical to remember. We are commanded to surrender everything to Him. Not an organization representing Him, or a party that gathers in His name. But to Him and His Son.
Very interesting and thoughtful. I take comfort in the fact that God is the Alpha and Omega, without beginning or end, and as Romans 8:28 says “in all things God works.” I trust in his sovereignty and ultimate triumph over the evil of this present darkness, and look forward to eternity with Him.
Brilliantly written. Thank you for this piece. What an eye opener. The references to Genesis enlightened me. What a frightening time to be living. God bless you Aaron
Jess, I attended the Regional Economic Development Summit in Orlando this fall where AI took center stage. One of the panels was led by former senior leader of the World Economic Forum, Dr. Anil Menon. Some of the most influential leaders in AI technology in the country were present including Kevin Bolen, Principal and Head of AI Transformation, Strategy and Investments for KPMG who encouraged everyone to “attempt every task you do in a day with AI first.” 👀
Orlando is quietly becoming a hub of innovation—arguably ahead of much of what the rest of the country is currently engaged in. Florida, in particular, has major initiatives underway on vertiports and emerging transportation projects expected to roll out over the next two years.
And yet, can I tell you how many people actually sat through that panel?
The room was almost empty.
These were leaders with immense influence, true thought leaders shaping the future of technology and society. And still, there was little interest. People know something is humming beneath the surface. They know it’s happening. But perhaps they don’t believe we’ve entered the Jetsons era yet or they don’t think it’s worth engaging with.
I sat in panels on smart cities and on the technologies that will truly dominate our lives in the coming years, and the turnout was shockingly low. People simply weren’t interested.
I don’t know whether it was boredom, or whether the ideas felt too abstract to grasp. But I can tell you this: it was eye-opening.
I felt something similar a few weeks later at Florida Autonomous Vehicle Summit.
How many people will remain asleep while all of this unfolds right in front of them?
Tiffani, this is wild. But also what I’ve been sensing. I feel crazy because I’m so weighed by it. I can’t stop thinking about it. And yet the topic gets very little attention online. It’s like everyone is asleep to what it’s pointing us to.
So true Aaron! From the beginning, humanity has wrestled with work.
In Genesis, before the Fall, Adam is given meaningful work—to tend and keep the garden. Work wasn’t the curse; the toil was. Since Eden, people have looked for ways to evade labor, ease the burden, or bypass the discipline that work produces. And yet, Scripture shows us that God refines, forms, and matures us through work. That’s often where He does some of His deepest shaping.
Genesis reminds us that humanity has always struggled with work, authority, and stewardship—especially when it requires foresight and responsibility. The question isn’t whether change is coming; it’s whether we’re awake, prepared, and willing to steward what’s being placed in our hands.
It really is a time to be alive. We are here “for such a time as this!” And the King is coming to rule and reign again. Til then, the “Prince of the air” continues to have a field day.
How many will remain asleep while it unfolds in real time?
I think the solution is both easy and difficult to achieve. I like to bring up the story of Norma Rae. She shut down a factory , simply by standing on a table with a sign that said,”UNION.” The workers shut off their machines and left the factory. If we, as people and humanity, refuse collectively to conform to these,” Cabal overlords” we will stop this and move to a higher existence. Our strength is in numbers, our weakness is in our division. So it is easy easy, band together for common purpose. And difficult as we are tribal and easily turned against one another as these pysop have demonstrated(convid, Ukraine, stolen governments etc.)
…and in the end, the weeping, and moaning and gnashing of teeth, of those who had ears but did not hear…they had eyes but did not see… their hearts did not understand.
This article left me shook. I’ve been so smug in my avoidance of AI. It is all for nothing.
We were made in His image and likeness. Key word: 'made.' Made by who? And just 'made.' God was not made, He is (I am who am). This is where the line is drawn between human enterprise and human hubris. Creator & created vs I/we can be as God. Gratefulness vs pride and folly. Deadly folly. Eternally deadly folly.
How do we prepare the kids for this? I’m inclined to have mine read this ASAP. I was the mom that clipped the “drunk/texting driving killed somebody” articles out of the newspaper and left them out with their breakfast while they were in high school. I want them to know all of this, but I’m afraid they already do. I know they are capable of critical thinking and common sense and kindness. We mostly “homechurched” but they are familiar with my small town Methodist upbringing. I’ve just been praying for guidance and trying to get my ducks in a row.🙏❤️🇺🇸❤️✌🏼
We’re talking about it a lot. I’d say that you let them know it’s coming. They can see the pitfalls in it if they are discussing the morality of AI. It’s a challenge to be sure.
I was thinking of Tower of Babel as I read this article realizing that man has not changed. It is still the desire of man to become like God, but in doing so he will destroy himself. Nothing has changed. We’ve become more sophisticated perhaps and built robots who can do our thinking for us, but man’s inhumanity to man is still the same. Our only Hope is God, the living Word, and I believe that more with each passing year. If you read the Book, you know how the story of man ends. It won’t be taken over by machines or a bureaucracy as He will have the final say over His creation. My concern is what we will have to go through before God gets fed up with us and says “Enough!”
Fascinating (and somewhat terrifying) article. Thank you as always for making us think outside the box.
I think it’s consistent that man cannot help prevent himself from his own destruction. Appreciate you reading this. It’s hard to watch it in real time.
It’s astonishing to watch, and it’s happening so quickly. I remember as a little girl (I was born in 1952) asking my grandmother if she thought Jesus was coming back right away. I’d been terrified by a sermon I’d listened to that Sunday. She said, “honey, I’ve been hearing that all my life and He hasn’t come back yet. Just live your life and stop worrying about it. He’ll come when He comes.” That memory has always given me a strange sort of comfort, and it’s been something I’ve always told my children and now my grandchildren. We occupy till He comes, and we do it with faith and integrity and with honor.
It seems now though that the time warp has been ramped up. Like everything is accelerating so quickly. I think we are living in the final days. I believe the final countdown has begun. Man’s hubris is astonishing to me. The dishonesty and cruelty that is being played out before our very eyes. How can God allow this to go on for much longer? Unless we fall on our faces before Him as nations and accept His sovereignty, how can this go on without total destruction? I hope I’m wrong and that the ship will right itself once again. It’s happened in the past, so perhaps it will again. Regardless, my faith stays anchored in my Creator. Thanks again, Aaron. A sobering way to start a Monday but we all need to remember where our hope comes from, and I am so grateful for that reminder.
The part about this really being about comfort, and our desire to escape the cost of work was something I already knew in the back of my mind. But reading it put words to it in a way that made everything click. Historically, our constant striving for comfort has led to major revolutions. And a lot of the time, those revolutions end with people turning to God for answers, because the things they once trusted to satisfy them and meet the deepest desires of their hearts eventually fail.
It reminds me of Adam and Eve. After eating the fruit, they realized they weren’t actually going to be like God after all. Any attempt to make ourselves God, or believe we can hold all the answers, always leads to the same kind of realization.
Has anyone read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman… he argues that humans are less likely to usher in the predictions Orwell made and far more likely to fall victim to what Huxley predicted in A Brave New World. Where we LOVE but get made redundant by the technologies we invent. You see it everywhere and it’s scary… she says as she types on her iphone after pressing “ignore limit” on the instagram limit…
Such a thoughtful and thought-provoking article. Thank you! It's a scary time in so many ways. For those of us who take the Bible to be God's actual words to us, His beloved, the whole of the beginning of John 1 brings much comfort and speaks of a higher truth that is real, and relevant to everything going on.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Thank you for that lovely reminder ✨🙏
Thank you for writing this. I can feel the weight behind it…not as outrage, but as a sober grief.
And I resonate with what you’re naming. Every tool is useful…until it’s captured by power and used for control. That pattern isn’t new. It’s ancient. Humanity has always been willing to hand itself over when fear is loud enough and comfort is close enough.
What I keep coming back to is this. Apart from union with God, we bend toward fear…and fear almost always becomes control. Not because we’re cartoon villains, but because we’re trying to survive. We’re trying to secure ourselves. We’re trying to outrun limitation, vulnerability, toil, and death.
Chesterton said it perfectly in the introduction to Orthodoxy: “We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.”
Because when we choose comfort as the highest good, we almost always choose control right along with it.
The Babel connection feels hauntingly relevant. One language. One project. One tower. It looks like unity, but it isn’t communion. It’s humanity attempting to become safe without surrender…whole without love…godlike without God.
And yet even here, I don’t want to surrender to despair. The Logos isn’t an algorithm. The Word isn’t a machine. The future isn’t finally held by systems or “collective brains.”
It’s held by a Person.
Grateful you put words to this. It’s the kind of piece that doesn’t just inform…it calls people awake.
Thanks for reading it. It’s very complicated to understand why it feels like we’re being replaced, but all the people who could help stop it, are cheering on the demise.
Aaron, it’s like you’re translating my brain. And why aren’t more people feeling the weight of doom here?
It’s really wild. I feel like no one wants to ask if this is the right thing for humanity. It’s as if someone just deemed it as the only option. It’s very heavy to me.
People everywhere ARE “feeling the weight of doom”. EVERYONE I know recognizes the dangers of AI. There are ordinary people fighting against the data centers popping up all over the country, only to be shut down by city councils, state legislators, and executive orders. Believers in God’s Word recognize the parallels to Babel and dread the coming judgement, but also take comfort in knowing God is still on His throne and is sovereign over ALL… even AI. That does not mean we may not suffer. But as believers we are not alone. God will not leave us or forsake us. The evils of this world just make the promise of eternity with Christ more precious.
Unless...you and I...talk about it openly...and don't stop talking
Thank you Kevin for sharing this all in a comment here.
"It's humanity attempting to become safe without surrender" is such a good phrase to encapsulate this idea. The difference between surrender to AI, to government, to 'society', compared to surrender to God is so striking and critical to remember. We are commanded to surrender everything to Him. Not an organization representing Him, or a party that gathers in His name. But to Him and His Son.
Amen!
Agree
Very interesting and thoughtful. I take comfort in the fact that God is the Alpha and Omega, without beginning or end, and as Romans 8:28 says “in all things God works.” I trust in his sovereignty and ultimate triumph over the evil of this present darkness, and look forward to eternity with Him.
Brilliantly written. Thank you for this piece. What an eye opener. The references to Genesis enlightened me. What a frightening time to be living. God bless you Aaron
Right, Karen?! How is this not more obsessively discussed? It’s literally ushering in our replacements 😭
Jess, I attended the Regional Economic Development Summit in Orlando this fall where AI took center stage. One of the panels was led by former senior leader of the World Economic Forum, Dr. Anil Menon. Some of the most influential leaders in AI technology in the country were present including Kevin Bolen, Principal and Head of AI Transformation, Strategy and Investments for KPMG who encouraged everyone to “attempt every task you do in a day with AI first.” 👀
Orlando is quietly becoming a hub of innovation—arguably ahead of much of what the rest of the country is currently engaged in. Florida, in particular, has major initiatives underway on vertiports and emerging transportation projects expected to roll out over the next two years.
And yet, can I tell you how many people actually sat through that panel?
The room was almost empty.
These were leaders with immense influence, true thought leaders shaping the future of technology and society. And still, there was little interest. People know something is humming beneath the surface. They know it’s happening. But perhaps they don’t believe we’ve entered the Jetsons era yet or they don’t think it’s worth engaging with.
I sat in panels on smart cities and on the technologies that will truly dominate our lives in the coming years, and the turnout was shockingly low. People simply weren’t interested.
I don’t know whether it was boredom, or whether the ideas felt too abstract to grasp. But I can tell you this: it was eye-opening.
I felt something similar a few weeks later at Florida Autonomous Vehicle Summit.
How many people will remain asleep while all of this unfolds right in front of them?
It really is a time to be alive, isn’t it?
Tiffani, this is wild. But also what I’ve been sensing. I feel crazy because I’m so weighed by it. I can’t stop thinking about it. And yet the topic gets very little attention online. It’s like everyone is asleep to what it’s pointing us to.
This conference sounds super interesting.
Next time, take me!!! 🤭
We can definitely make that happen! Anything to get you down here to the ‘Free State’ more often 😃🩷
So true Aaron! From the beginning, humanity has wrestled with work.
In Genesis, before the Fall, Adam is given meaningful work—to tend and keep the garden. Work wasn’t the curse; the toil was. Since Eden, people have looked for ways to evade labor, ease the burden, or bypass the discipline that work produces. And yet, Scripture shows us that God refines, forms, and matures us through work. That’s often where He does some of His deepest shaping.
Genesis reminds us that humanity has always struggled with work, authority, and stewardship—especially when it requires foresight and responsibility. The question isn’t whether change is coming; it’s whether we’re awake, prepared, and willing to steward what’s being placed in our hands.
It really is a time to be alive. We are here “for such a time as this!” And the King is coming to rule and reign again. Til then, the “Prince of the air” continues to have a field day.
How many will remain asleep while it unfolds in real time?
I appreciate you reading it. It’s a wild moment isn’t it?
A large Majority, I suspect.
so true.
Don’t forget the pain in child bearing curse. (!!)
I birthed seven children. My eighth, I got an epidural. I felt like I cheated.
We have every type of drug for your smallest discomfort.
This are about to get a lot more uncomfortable.
I think the solution is both easy and difficult to achieve. I like to bring up the story of Norma Rae. She shut down a factory , simply by standing on a table with a sign that said,”UNION.” The workers shut off their machines and left the factory. If we, as people and humanity, refuse collectively to conform to these,” Cabal overlords” we will stop this and move to a higher existence. Our strength is in numbers, our weakness is in our division. So it is easy easy, band together for common purpose. And difficult as we are tribal and easily turned against one another as these pysop have demonstrated(convid, Ukraine, stolen governments etc.)
Norma Rae!
…and in the end, the weeping, and moaning and gnashing of teeth, of those who had ears but did not hear…they had eyes but did not see… their hearts did not understand.
This article left me shook. I’ve been so smug in my avoidance of AI. It is all for nothing.
Come quickly Lord.
😭😭😭😭
Come quickly, Lord!
We were made in His image and likeness. Key word: 'made.' Made by who? And just 'made.' God was not made, He is (I am who am). This is where the line is drawn between human enterprise and human hubris. Creator & created vs I/we can be as God. Gratefulness vs pride and folly. Deadly folly. Eternally deadly folly.
I like your comment and hope you are correct.
Thank you for this article. Ever since Musk made that post about singularity I’ve been asking the question “How does God play into this?”
Good. We should all be wondering.
Same
How do we prepare the kids for this? I’m inclined to have mine read this ASAP. I was the mom that clipped the “drunk/texting driving killed somebody” articles out of the newspaper and left them out with their breakfast while they were in high school. I want them to know all of this, but I’m afraid they already do. I know they are capable of critical thinking and common sense and kindness. We mostly “homechurched” but they are familiar with my small town Methodist upbringing. I’ve just been praying for guidance and trying to get my ducks in a row.🙏❤️🇺🇸❤️✌🏼
We’re talking about it a lot. I’d say that you let them know it’s coming. They can see the pitfalls in it if they are discussing the morality of AI. It’s a challenge to be sure.
Excellent point
All I have to say other than, another great article, is Come Lord Jesus. He is truly our only hope.
It does sometimes feel that’s the only sane way through the mess we’ve made. Thanks for reading this.
Amen
Great article per usual, Aaron. I love the reference of the Tower of Babel falling, spot on!!!
Me too!
Thank you. Appreciate you reading it. I guess one can hope in that intervention again.
I was thinking of Tower of Babel as I read this article realizing that man has not changed. It is still the desire of man to become like God, but in doing so he will destroy himself. Nothing has changed. We’ve become more sophisticated perhaps and built robots who can do our thinking for us, but man’s inhumanity to man is still the same. Our only Hope is God, the living Word, and I believe that more with each passing year. If you read the Book, you know how the story of man ends. It won’t be taken over by machines or a bureaucracy as He will have the final say over His creation. My concern is what we will have to go through before God gets fed up with us and says “Enough!”
Fascinating (and somewhat terrifying) article. Thank you as always for making us think outside the box.
I think it’s consistent that man cannot help prevent himself from his own destruction. Appreciate you reading this. It’s hard to watch it in real time.
It’s astonishing to watch, and it’s happening so quickly. I remember as a little girl (I was born in 1952) asking my grandmother if she thought Jesus was coming back right away. I’d been terrified by a sermon I’d listened to that Sunday. She said, “honey, I’ve been hearing that all my life and He hasn’t come back yet. Just live your life and stop worrying about it. He’ll come when He comes.” That memory has always given me a strange sort of comfort, and it’s been something I’ve always told my children and now my grandchildren. We occupy till He comes, and we do it with faith and integrity and with honor.
It seems now though that the time warp has been ramped up. Like everything is accelerating so quickly. I think we are living in the final days. I believe the final countdown has begun. Man’s hubris is astonishing to me. The dishonesty and cruelty that is being played out before our very eyes. How can God allow this to go on for much longer? Unless we fall on our faces before Him as nations and accept His sovereignty, how can this go on without total destruction? I hope I’m wrong and that the ship will right itself once again. It’s happened in the past, so perhaps it will again. Regardless, my faith stays anchored in my Creator. Thanks again, Aaron. A sobering way to start a Monday but we all need to remember where our hope comes from, and I am so grateful for that reminder.
The part about this really being about comfort, and our desire to escape the cost of work was something I already knew in the back of my mind. But reading it put words to it in a way that made everything click. Historically, our constant striving for comfort has led to major revolutions. And a lot of the time, those revolutions end with people turning to God for answers, because the things they once trusted to satisfy them and meet the deepest desires of their hearts eventually fail.
It reminds me of Adam and Eve. After eating the fruit, they realized they weren’t actually going to be like God after all. Any attempt to make ourselves God, or believe we can hold all the answers, always leads to the same kind of realization.
Very thoughtful piece! And I wish you left us a better action item than praying for Armageddon.
I wish there was a better one. Not sure how to fix humanity and its relentless pursuit of self destruction
Has anyone read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman… he argues that humans are less likely to usher in the predictions Orwell made and far more likely to fall victim to what Huxley predicted in A Brave New World. Where we LOVE but get made redundant by the technologies we invent. You see it everywhere and it’s scary… she says as she types on her iphone after pressing “ignore limit” on the instagram limit…
Adding to audio now. Thank you!
That’s an excellent read.