I watched Yuval Noah Harari’s exposition, “AI is hacking the code of civilization.” That code, he argues, is human language. He said, “AI can be understood as language liberating itself from human control and gaining independent agency.” If Harari (and many others) are correct, AI will soon become a super, quasi-transcendent, non-human intelligence. As a reasoning agent, fueled by the sum of fallen human thought throughout history, AI threatens to out-think and subdue its creator, mankind. In this way, it mimics Adam and Eve, who coveted divine ascent and committed our original sin. Within this intellectual matrix, where words and thought are dominated by artificial intelligence, what does “love God with all the mind” (Mk 12:30) mean? In a truly materialistic milieu, what relevance does God, his thoughts and his language, possess? How does the fear of the Lord function within an artificial Babel, where both divine and human thinkers have been marginalized or banished? Truly, this would be our final sin, when the false god, technologically fashioned by human hands, dominates the pseudo-worshipper. Sadly, God often “hands over” the sinner to his sin and folly.

What do you think?