ai ethics

Apple has unveiled a home device, and Andrew and Joel watch the ad Apple made for it and ask why a family at the kitchen table looks so unhappy. Along the way they cover Elon Musk’s upside-down flying car, recursive self-improvement in AI models, and Meta’s new models. Joel defends smart tech that fades into the background, as at Ecobee. Andrew wants phones put away at dinner, and a family left free to enjoy not knowing.

Michael Graham of The Gospel Coalition’s Keller Center returns to walk through the 2026 AI Christian Benchmark, which he built with Andrew: 117 questions on theology, ethics, attachment, and Bible knowledge, run against 46 AI models. The models beat seminary students on a Bible exam, scored worst on sexual ethics, and too often offer to be your friend or pray for you. Michael makes the case for a principled pluralist way of answering religious questions, and explains the one sentence that makes a chatbot’s answers line up with your church’s teaching.

Obadiah Mariona, who works for Heritage College and Seminary while finishing his master’s degree, joins the hosts to ask how AI is changing education. Andrew brings a study where homework scores rose and exam scores fell, Obadiah explains why he uses AI at work and not in his coursework, and Austin describes how seminary writing has changed since he graduated. Joel makes the case for personalized AI tutoring and Austin asks who can afford it, and the episode ends on authority, the church, and the Heritage Hub, which hosts seminary classes in local churches.

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!

The three hosts are back at the end of the summer, and the news has piled up. Meta settled with forty-seven state attorneys general for up to $17 billion, and Austin walks through what the company actually conceded, why those concessions leave the core product intact, and how Meta turned its own loss into a strike at Snap, TikTok, and YouTube. Andrew noticed that Claude’s memory feature excludes religious beliefs, which leaves a secular default sitting underneath everything else it personalizes, and Joel explains what really happened when models “escaped the sandbox,” whether a VPN is worth paying for, and why an ordinary church is an easy target.