Message: AI and Transhumanism
Speaker: Greg Holder
Welcome your group – check in, what has been on their hearts recently. Burdens,praises?
Whatever is your typical time of prayer, before or after your discussion-gather requests but also be sure to include, as Pastor Greg did in the message- prayers for the conflict in Israel. It is one that has been going on for centuries. May we all continue to lift up the brothers and sisters on both sides of the conflict. We lament and cry out to our Savior to intervene, bring His light to push back the evil and defeat darkness.
- Discuss how you reacted to the videos of the "real robots."
- What do you know about A. I.?
- Where did you land on the scale used in the message:
- The end is near
- The danger is real
- Don't know much
- See advantages
- Let's go!
- What was your reaction when you realized we were talking about A.I. in the service?
Have someone read the 1 Chronicles verse out loud. Discuss how that applies to us as Christ-followers today.
How are we using A.I. in our everyday lives right now? And since we are, we ought to better understand its impact on our minds.
Pastor Greg contrasted the differences in the Psalm 95 verse and Genesis verse. Have someone read them aloud and discuss. Where are the similarities and the stark difference that applies to this discussion?
Technology, in it's various iterations has been used for centuries: making bricks, Roman roads, the internet of today. Each have capacity for good or evil. The verse to focus on is 1 Corinthians 10:31. Read aloud.
Rather than run and hide from technology-as Christ-followers (and following the example of 1 Chron. 12) we are called to live in the tension of technology and an "embodied faith." What could that look like? What can machines/A.I. NOT do that the image-bearers of God need and can do for one another? Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe institute says that human intelligence is wrapped up not just in our neurons, but our emotions, and desires and a commonsense understanding of the world. King David might’ve put it like this: we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Share the quote by Kosuke Koyama and discuss.
Take time to look around at those around you. Be present to the gift of each other's presence and how they each reflect the Imago Dei. End your time together with prayers for one another (unless you began with prayer)- then close with the Lord's Prayer together.
". . . love has its speed. It’s different from the technological speed we’re used to. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks."
Kosuke Koyama
Read
1 Chronicles 12:32
Psalm 95:6
Genesis 11:3,4
1 Corinthians 10:31
Reflect
Discuss the quote from Veronique Bohbot- "the sedentary, habitual, and technology-dependant conditions of modern living today are changing how children and adults use their brains."
How many completely rely on our phones rather than our memories for important phone numbers?
Do
end prayer time with the Lord's Prayer.