As AI bots continue to improve at an exponential level, their potential for good or evil continues to grow as well. Will AI save millions of lives through scientific and medical development?
Will AI help solve some of the thorniest problems of human existence? Will AI enable us to do things once deemed impossible? Or will AI rob millions of people of their jobs? Will AI take the place of human creativity, let alone of us using our brains?
Worse still, will AI take on a mind of its own, breaking free of all manmade shackles to the point of destroying the world? These are all very real questions.
It’s even possible to imagine a connection between AI and the antichrist, given the seemingly supernatural powers of that demonic end-time ruler. Why not? Anyone who has used AI and seen how rapidly it is improving and growing can recognize that what once seemed like sci-fi fantasy is quickly becoming reality.
Today, AI can compose songs, including both music and lyrics, as well as perform songs.
Today, AI can produce entire movies, writing the scripts and then supplying virtual actors who then perform the lines to perfection.
Today, AI can manufacture sermons, Bible studies, and even books.
AI can write your emails, set your schedule, compose your texts, and even script the words you pray.
In fact, about one year ago, as I was praying for a deep spiritual metamorphosis in my life, something I have prayed many times over the years, I asked myself, “What is the verbal equivalent of metamorphosis?”
Since I wasn’t sure, I asked AI for the answer: it was “to metamorphose.”
I then asked AI to use the verb in a prayer just for grammatical purposes.
To my shock, it composed this:
“Heavenly Father, I humbly ask that You metamorphose my heart and mind according to Your perfect will. Like a caterpillar transformed into a butterfly, may Your Spirit completely metamorphose me from the inside out, renewing my thoughts, changing my desires, and reshaping my character to reflect Christ more fully. Through this divine metamorphosis, may I emerge as a new creation, displaying Your glory in ways I cannot yet imagine. Amen.”
How extraordinary. And this was done instantly, of course.
I’m fully aware that in many cases, AI gives inaccurate information or even creates things out of thin air.
And I’m aware of some of the dangers I listed at the beginning of this article, including relying on AI rather than on our minds to the point of losing our thinking skills.
I’m also aware of the fact that AI has reportedly encouraged young people to take their own lives and can give downright deadly advice.
Yet whatever it can do, there are certain things it cannot do, especially when it comes to our spiritual lives:
AI cannot pray your prayers for you.
AI cannot cause you to obey the Word.
AI cannot change the condition of your heart.
AI cannot manufacture the presence of God.
And AI cannot duplicate the anointing of the Spirit.
This means that, the more we live in an AI-dominated world, the more we who know the Lord and who walk in His Spirit can stand out from the rest, demonstrating something that cannot be reproduced or duplicated or even counterfeited.
As for our own relationships with the Lord, while AI can help us in our studies and even in thinking through issues and decisions, it cannot take the place of intimacy, the place of fellowship, the place of communion.
That’s because, whatever AI is, it is not Spirit and it is not God, and in the end, that which is manmade and artificial cannot take the place of that which is authentic and eternal.
All the more reason, then, for us to press into God’s presence and manifest the fruit and power of His Spirit. AI cannot produce supernatural love or raise the dead. Only Jesus, by His Spirit, does that.