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Bill Gates recently uploaded a very important memo in the AI space. He discussed his optimism about AI and also his potential concerns. In this episode, we tackle both and explore how to navigate these changes as Christians and followers of Jesus. We hope you enjoy this episode!

Crossway gave the show permission to play a whole chapter of Andrew Wilson’s Remaking the World, “Machines: Becoming Industrialized,” read by the author himself. All three hosts then respond: whether the AI moment is a second Industrial Revolution or what Joel would rather call an autonomy revolution, why Austin thinks the internet is still the closer analogy, why the Luddite comparison turns dark around data centers, and what the invention of marketing did to who gets to speak in a church.

Bonnie Kristian on AI chatbots, companionship, and what is real in a conversation with a machine.

Autonomous agents are here; the hosts on agency, responsibility, and concern.

Reading technology through the whole biblical story, from the garden to the city.

What happens to reading, writing, and teaching when AI can do the homework.

Why faithful Christians land differently on tech, and how to hold disagreement well.

The Neo humanoid robot arrives; the hosts on labor, the body, and living with machines.

Setting the tone: neither breathless nor fearful, how to talk about AI with wisdom.

What the gods of Silicon Valley believe, and how their faith shapes the tech they build.

Reading the latest gentle-singularity optimism against a Christian account of human nature.

When trust in the machine slips into worship, and how a Psalm-shaped discernment names it.

Responding to Wes Huff's history of technology and Christianity, and what a tech-savvy faith looks like.

Keith Plummer on what it means to be technologically literate, and why discernment beats reflex.

Jeffrey Bilbro on reading, attention, and recovering a convivial common life in a distracted age.

Alastair Roberts reframes amplification, print, and even AI through the incarnation, where God's chosen medium is human flesh.

Jay Y. Kim on how noise rewires our craving for silence, and why analog presence transforms where digital only informs.

Kelly Kapic traces how the clock turned time from gift into currency, and how ritual rhythms free us from the tyranny of efficiency.

As Musk circles Twitter, the hosts read the platform's decontextualized speech against ancient wisdom about news, words, and the formation of attention.

Jason Thacker on forming wisdom instead of just following rules, and how our digital habits quietly disciple us in an age of misinformation.

Smart thermostats and sensors promise a frictionless home, but what is all that optimization forming us toward? A conversation about the hearth, convenience, and love.

Can we be fully present in a virtual world? A look at the metaverse through embodiment, the incarnation, and what actually makes us persons.