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AI Ethics

The harder questions about AI: idolatry, agency, warfare, companionship, human dignity, and where trust in the machine goes wrong.

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EP 114Jun 2, 2026
The Pope Said THIS About AI (Wyatt Graham)

Wyatt Graham returns to read Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — not the Pope “coming out against AI” but Catholic social teaching applied to the new thing. Technology is never neutral under the condition of the conditioners, the few oppress the many through its instruments, and prudential reasoning is the one thing AI cannot do.

EP 113May 19, 2026
Does God Care if AI Does My Job?

Automation, vocation, and whether God cares if a machine takes your work.

EP 110Apr 21, 2026
Why John Piper Changed His Mind on AI

A year after his ChatGPT prayer went viral, John Piper revisits AI on David Platt's Radical podcast. Austin and Joel hear less of a reversal than a sharpening. AI is a real kind of intelligence, and what makes us human is the spirit, not the feeling.

EP 108Mar 31, 2026
An Honest Conversation About AI Chatbots (Bonnie Kristian)

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

EP 106Mar 10, 2026
AI Warfare, Kids Tech, and Wild Times

A grab-bag on AI in warfare, kids and tech, and a wild news cycle.

EP 104Feb 10, 2026
Should We Be Concerned with AI Agents?

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

EP 103Feb 3, 2026
AI Is Interpreting the Bible Now? (Jonas Kurlberg & Zoltan Schwab)

Jonas Kurlberg and Zoltan Schwab on AI, hermeneutics, and who gets to interpret Scripture.

EP 87Sep 10, 2025
Demons Can Use AI, Within Limits

A bracing theological conversation on spiritual realities, AI, and the limits of the demonic.

EP 81Jun 5, 2025
AI Shepherds and Electric Sheep (Paul Hoffman)

Paul Hoffman on AI in ministry, the shepherd's irreplaceable work, and what machines cannot pastor.

EP 77Apr 30, 2025
How AI Can Function As Idolatry

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

EP 60Nov 7, 2024
Machines of Loving Grace?

Reading Dario Amodei's "Machines of Loving Grace" essay: the optimistic AI future, weighed against a Christian anthropology.

EP 58Oct 23, 2024
A Thomistic Case For AI Souls? (Timothy Jacobs)

Timothy Jacobs brings Aquinas to the question of whether AI can think, feel, or love, and where the boundaries really lie.

EP 48May 1, 2024
Ethical AI, Innovation as Stewardship (Kevin Tuer)

Kevin Tuer makes the case for designing ethics into AI from the start, and for innovation as a form of stewardship.

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EP 24Apr 4, 2023
Should We Embrace New Tech? Joel and Andrew Disagree

Should our default be to adopt or to resist? Joel and Andrew disagree, working out what posture Christians should bring to every new tool.

EP 118Jul 10, 2026
Books About Building for the Age of AI

Andrew and Joel trade summer reading, seven books that shaped how they build. Range and kind vs wicked worlds, The Lean Startup on testing a hypothesis instead of debating it, Culture Making on why creating beats critiquing, and the evolutionary neuroscience the frontier labs are mining for the next breakthrough.

EP 116Jun 16, 2026
How Should Pastors Use AI? (Scott Hurst)

Andrew and Joel sit down with Scott Hurst, a self-described 'average' Toronto pastor, to hear how the AI conversation actually sounds between pastors. Less 'should AI write your sermon' (nobody is) and more rental agreements, meeting minutes, the capacity for mystery, and the pain points a shepherd should never automate away.

EP 112May 12, 2026
How Christians Can Harness the Power of AI

A constructive case for using AI well in Christian life and work.

EP 95Dec 1, 2025
Advent and the Technological Impulse

Advent waiting against the technological impulse to seize, optimize, and never wait.

EP 94Nov 18, 2025
A Christian Perspective on the Neo Robot

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

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