Keith D. Stanglin Read Part 1 and Part 2 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 applications of AI (chatbots and...

Keith D. Stanglin Read Part 1 and Part 3 of this series. In my previous post, I declared that I have never used AI and do not intend to use it in the future. To anyone who knows me, or who has read some of my previous writing on the topic, this is not a surprising revelation. What are some of the negative consequences of using AI? Why don’t I use it? I offer here seven reasons why I don’t use AI. On second thought, I actually have eight reasons. It has become increasingly clear that I...

Keith D. Stanglin A version of this series of blog posts was given at the 2026 Harding Lectureship. View Part 2 and Part 3 of this series. Before I consider technologies that threaten our human nature, let me briefly state my assumptions about human nature, that it can be diminished, and how. Anthropology is perhaps the central theological question of our day, and it is my primary concern in this series of posts. A properly theological anthropology is founded on the doctrine of human beings...