Pastor Dewey Moede: When I was preaching yesterday at ReAwaken City Church in Albuquerque I warned the congregation about AI, a tool from Satan. It is a greater threat to the world than nuclear war.
“The dilemma of the AI age will be different: its defining technology will be widely acquired, mastered, and employed. The achievement of mutual strategic restraint — or even achieving a common definition of restraint — will be more difficult than ever before, both conceptually and practically. The management of nuclear weapons, the endeavor of half a century, remains incomplete and fragmentary. Yet the challenge of assessing the nuclear balance was comparatively straightforward. Warheads could be counted, and their yields were known. Conversely, the capabilities of AI are not fixed; they are dynamic. Unlike nuclear weapons, AIs are hard to track: once trained, they may be copied easily and run on relatively small machines. And detecting their presence or verifying their absence is difficult or impossible with the present technology. In this age, deterrence will likely arise from complexity — from the multiplicity of vectors through which an AI‑enabled attack is able to travel and from the speed of potential AI responses.”
― The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future
Denison Forum
Dr. Jim Denison
Taylor Swift was in the news yesterday as she watched her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, play tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs. He made eleven catches as his team defeated the Baltimore Ravens and will face the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl. However, Taylor Swift was also in the news earlier in the week as millions of people came across fake sexually explicit AI-generated images of the pop singer on social media. No federal law in the US prevents or deters someone from creating and sharing non-consensual deepfake images, though Congress is beginning the process of considering such legislation.
People seldom make products for which there is no market. Online pornography has nearly doubled in the last five years to a $1.1 billion industry.
And this is just the tragic tip of the moral iceberg.
