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A reflection on Deuteronomy 5:1–22 and Matthew 5:17–20 M. Todd Hall In 1995 I was working as a youth minister at a medium sized church in the Houston area. Several of the kids and I, along with the senior minister and a deacon and an elder, took a trip to Honduras to do a little bit of physical work for one of the ministries the church supported: an orphanage for abandoned children in a town called Catacamas. Now, that was a long time ago, and I’m not sure what Honduras is li

Keith D. Stanglin Jacob Jordaens (d. 1678), "Prometheus Bound" Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series. In the final installment of this series, I want to address three more reasons I don’t use AI and would recommend others to think twice. 5) Rewards deception. Many of the previously mentioned aspects of AI are problems because the entire enterprise is deceptive and is built on deception. That is, AI proponents don’t usually come right out and say, “This is lazy, it

Keith D. Stanglin Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 of this series. In my previous post in this series on technological threats, I suggested that the risk that Artificial General Intelligence or so-called Super-intelligence poses to humanity is sufficient for me to opt out of the entire offer. No thank you. But even if the probability of a doomsday scenario is zero, I’m laying out 7 reasons why I never have used and do not intend to use the more innocuous, quotidian applicati