The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Imagine a companion that can be your lover, friend, and trustworthy emotional support all at once. Though the notion of an infallible companion is certainly alluring, turning to AI for our social needs will do significant harm to human relationships.
Artist Jingna Zhang predicts that “60-80% of the artist workforce will lose their jobs in the next 2-5 years. Not to prompters—just to company bottom lines.” As with businesses and workplaces, the visual arts are going through a major shake-up from generative AI. It seems like a safe bet that artists will lose work to AI – a recurring consequence of new technologies – but job security is not all that is at stake. The introduction of AI into the visual arts cheapens the unique human capacity for imagination.
More workplaces are beginning to build AI into their organizational structures. This will make people spend less time working with other people, and more time with an AI assistant. This way of working will not make people thrive. What kind of work are people meant to do?
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In our techno-industrial society, it may no longer be enough of a witness to live Christianly in a secular economy. Being a faithful witness to Christ means ordering our lives according to the counter-economy of God’s kingdom.