PNW STAFF
By all appearances, artificial intelligence is the marvel of our age—a digital marvel that promises to enhance productivity, revolutionize healthcare, automate legal processes, and generate more content than we could ever read. It's hailed as the next great leap forward in human development. But what if this leap forward is also a lunge into a carefully coded trap? What if AI is not only capable of shaping our world—but of reshaping us?
The truth is, AI is not just another tool in the belt of technological progress. It is a mirror—and a magnifier—of the values, intentions, and ideologies of its creators. It doesn’t operate in a vacuum; it learns from data sets curated by humans, and it is trained on vast corpuses of information, both helpful and harmful, truthful and deceptive. And this is where the danger lies—not just in the power AI possesses, but in the hands that shape it and the minds it influences.
Once viewed as a helpful assistant—managing calendars, writing emails, or summarizing research—AI is now transitioning into a source of authority. People are no longer just using AI to generate content; they’re asking it life questions. What should I believe about gender? What’s the best philosophy to follow? What does history teach us about justice, leadership, or morality? And in many cases, they’re accepting the answer AI gives as neutral truth.
But AI is not neutral. It is shaped by the datasets it is trained on, which are themselves reflections of cultural, political, and ideological biases. When those biases lean heavily in one direction—as they often do—the AI’s outputs become less a balanced presentation of truth and more a filtered lens that subtly persuades the user toward particular beliefs.
For Christians and those who hold to a biblical worldview, this should be especially alarming. AI is being built in an increasingly post-Christian society. As such, the values infused into AI systems often reflect secular humanism, progressive morality, and relativistic ethics.
If you ask an AI to define what it means to be a good person, it may give you a version of morality completely divorced from the biblical concepts of sin, repentance, redemption, and the sovereignty of God. It may affirm lifestyles and choices that contradict Scripture—not out of rebellion, but simply because that’s what it has “learned” from the majority of its inputs.
And when Christians interact with AI—whether through news summaries, educational tools, or even sermon writing assistants—they may find themselves unwittingly absorbing these alternate worldviews, gradually molding their own beliefs to match the machine’s logic. In this way, AI becomes not just a tool for information, but a teacher for transformation. Quietly, invisibly, it disciples.
The deeper issue is not just that AI can reflect biases—it’s that it will shape the entire infrastructure of how we access and process truth. AI already determines what articles you see on your newsfeed, what answers show up in your search results, and what kind of content is flagged or filtered. Once AI is embedded in schools, hospitals, law firms, government offices, and even churches, it won’t just be an influence—it will be the filter through which much of modern life flows.
And if the architects of this AI share a common worldview—one that rejects absolute truth, embraces moral relativism, and sees traditional faith as regressive—then that worldview will be systematized into nearly every digital encounter.
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