No, we shall not. At least, I won’t be. Time for my technologically reactionist baseball bat to the computer utopia.
1. AI robot as Pastor or Priest?
Given the comical failures of Chat GPT and other large language models, the day we trust robots to rightly divide the Word of Truth will be a sad day for the church. As fallible as human preachers are, they went to college and actually know things. At least, some of them do. Computers don’t truly know anything.
2. AI robot as spouse or soulmate?
There are chemicals released when two human beings touch each other that cannot be replicated by robots, so nope. Having an AI as a “spouse” is basically the same as masturbation. I’m pretty sure the church will ban them on that basis.
3. AI robot as teacher or instructor to your children?
Not without a human “handler” along to correct any of the robots’ mistakes. Probably never, because all of the edu-bots will likely get programmed by the state to teach Transgenderism, abortion, and other forms of evil. If a Christian organization programmed an educational robot to help homeschool moms, that might be nice, but it would still need to be supervised by an adult human at all times during operation lest it go rogue and turn into a racist like Tay did on Twitter.
4. AI robot as housemaid and baby sitter?
Housemaid yes, baby sitter no. We already have cleaning robots today so upgrading them with AI is more than acceptable. In 2025, we can program robots to wash our feet for us. That is fine.
Babysitting is a task of human relations that I don’t expect robots to master without making the babies feel like they are in prison camp. Babies need oxytocin bonding chemicals to feel loved and stay alive which a robot cannot provide.
5. AI robot to replace human friends?
No, that’s just creepy. Why talk to a computer when I can go out to the Internet and get a conversation with a human? What would AI conversations do to my social abilities?
6. AI robot as bodyguard equipped with firearm to protect you, so that it may kill a human who try to take away your life?
Nope, all it takes is one coding bug and we’re all dead or injured. Not to mention the North Korean hacker league would really like to get their hands on the code for these robots, particularly ones sold to U.S. political and economic leaders.
Not to mention if the bot actually kills someone, that will be a lawsuit I don’t want to have to deal with.
7. AI robot to make decisions on behalf of you in many things that you are "lazy" to work on them.
Kind of. I want A.I. to be a servant for boring routine tasks like cooking or taking out the garbage, doing the laundry, cleaning house and mowing the lawn, other yard work like trimming trees and moving gravel. I would love an A.I. cook to serve me healthy and nutritious meals. These sort of applications would free me to do more creative work that I want to do, increasing my productivity for God’s glory and honor.
