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MADE IN OUR IMAGE:
God, artificial intelligence and you
By Stephen Driscoll
Matthias Media. 192 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 1 922 980 199

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have a profound impact on our society in future years. Stephen Driscoll thinks through the possible implications from a Christian perspective. All technologies are gifts from God, but all can be abused by human sin. AI is a good gift from God, but humans are more than capable of misusing it.

Driscoll argues that AI will precipitate a crisis in human identity. Since evolution became the dominant explanation of human origins, humans have been seeking to justify our supremacy by our higher abilities and creativity than animals. But what happens when something more able and creative comes along? Humanity is dethroned to just being meat-based algorithms. This provides an opportunity for the gospel. A Christian’s true identity does not come from our ability, but from being made in the image of God and adopted as His sons.