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https://t.co/S0qgKEpn0V We predicted this in an episode of device and virtue. While the article frames it as a solution for harried parents, it overlooks the benefit of windshield time. That precious time when parents and kids have a chance to talk while they drive together.

“Like a 10-year-old webpage that had never felt the click of a mouse“ Cixin Liu, in “Curse 5.0” from *The Wandering Earth.*

$294 billion in recent and projected spending on AI from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, according to the New York Times this morning.

When a writer writes something I find confusing, I can spend fruitful effort seeking to understand the writer's mind. But when an AI generates something confusing, no amount of effort will yield another mind to me, and a sense of meaningless toil slowly begins to wash over me.

Cool, simple app developed at a recent hackathon. Enables church services to share "this week's Bible passage(s)" in a clean web app, using a QR code. So congregants can follow along. Click "Try Last Flow" to check it out. https://t.co/3wY3pt3FJw

Just got an email from a Boomer and in the signature it said… “Sent from my I-phone” which is totally giving Martin Buber vibes, à la “I-Thou” …which honestly is probably pretty accurate.

“No amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story.” —Steve Jobs

Still never heard an AI chatbot say: “I don’t know.” 🚩!

“Every piece of literature is a sequence of words; and sounds (or their graphic equivalent) are words precisely because they carry the mind beyond themselves. That is what being a word means.” - C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

The "Catch up" feature in @SlackHQ's mobile app has been a game changer for me. Swipe left to "keep unread" and swipe right to "mark as read." Would love to see @gmail and other email clients create a similar feature.

I have a proposal that should solve our problems: News should be in seasons like all other TV shows. In the summer months they just show reruns to give us all a break. Reruns can be whatever. Greatest hits. Let’s relive the Iraq war for a summer. Then in the fall, new season.

AI and Faith Receives Key Grant, Launches Search for Executive Director

I generally believe that AI won't replace our jobs, but it will take our tasks. Even if I'm wrong on that ... at any degree of scale, this dynamic amounts to the same thing in the end. Taking tasks away from multiple roles adds up to replacing jobs.

Beating the drum to "enhance, but not replace" may, in the end, alleviate legitimate worries, accelerate AI adoption, and thus speed up human replacement. Feeling reassured by those good intentions may simply blind us to this fact.

Christian leaders are consistently advocating for using AI to "enhance, but not replace" human connections and human work. That's well intended, but AI at any scale will replace. Any org adopting AI will, at the end of the day, replace human resources.

Misaligned AI is a problem many Christians are worried about. Sure. Yes. Let’s align them. But to believe that aligned AIs are the solution—thats a failure of imagination. We can get the outputs right and still get the outcomes wrong.

AI Utopians and Dystopians are very similar. They see similar AI capacities leading to different outcomes. A better question, different than Narayanan’, is whether you believe the hype about AI’s capacities in the first place.

Note: they don't "think" or "reason"--and they don't accurately describe the (chain of) actions that they actually do perform. #ethics #AI #LLMs #tech #research

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My friend Sara Joy Proppe helps churches make their building and property more inviting. These are the three Qs she asks pastors when she visits their church sites. Check out her work, Proximity Project, here… https://t.co/MYhfSba503