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Guest: This is Viewpoint with attorney and author Chuck Crismier. Viewpoint is a one-hour talk show confronting the issues of America's heart and home. And now with today's edition of Viewpoint, here is Chuck Crismier.

Chuck Crismier: Do I have a question for you?

The Bible says as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So, what if your thinking is set by AI? Then what are you? I'm leaving a pregnant silence here. If your thinking is set or directed by AI, what are you? Are you thinking from your heart or is something else driving your thinking?

All of that here today on Viewpoint. I'm glad that you've joined us. It's conversation as always with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms. And it's not just that AI is itself evil in and of itself. It's not that there are no benefits to AI, but what are the burdens? Is it a situation where the benefits are outweighed ultimately by the burdens? Or are the burdens outweighed by the benefits? We want to take a look at that here on the program today, and I'm glad that you've joined us. It's conversation as always with ever-increasing conviction, talk that transforms.

Always here on this program, we bring probing thoughts for prophetic times. Probing thoughts. In other words, it's not just business as usual, or not just regurgitating information out there that everybody else is talking about. No, we don't try to do that here on this program. We're not here to be like everyone else. We're here to be different from everyone else, not because we're not willing to talk about any of those issues, but because they're not the priority. The priority is to look at life and our issues from God's eternal perspective. Not from the culture's perspective, not from our history's perspective in and of itself, not from the World Economic Forum's perspective, not from the President of the United States' perspective, whether he be Democrat or Republican, but from God's perspective. You say, "Well, how can we know what God's perspective is?"

Well, that's exactly the point. The reason we can know what God's perspective is in general is through His word. He said, "I sent my word for a purpose." He said, "My word will not return void." Our words will return void. AI may return void, but God's word will not return void. So, when we're willing to think correctly concerning God's thoughts and intentions, then we're likely to be on track with Him. If we allow ourselves to be diverted from that track, no telling where it will end up. And that's the problem with AI.

Now, we're introducing here with regard to the issue of AI, a spiritual aspect. Most of those who are discussing the matters of AI are not talking about spiritual aspects. They're talking about other practical aspects, and we're going to talk about those here today directly on Viewpoint. And our viewpoint determines destiny. There is no subject that Viewpoint doesn't set the trajectory for destiny on, including artificial intelligence. We might actually be better off to call it almost intelligent. Almost intelligent. Because an article came out in The Epoch Times earlier this year with the title, "What is intelligence in the age of AI?" What is intelligence, anyway?

Well, it appears that intelligence, the whole idea of intelligence has been shifting, has been changing. Is that for good or ill? Is that something that we want to see happen or not? If we want to measure IQ, intelligence quotient, what is going to enable us to do that? AI, artificial intelligence, or real intelligence? How would we distinguish the difference? And is it possible that actually AI is reducing the IQ of our students today? Those who are looking at it carefully are saying, "Absolutely, absolutely AI is reducing the IQs of our students today." Why? Because they're not learning how to think. They're relying upon artificial intelligence to be their intelligence. And therefore, they are abandoning their own intelligence and the development of it in favor of an artificial substitute.

Now, I don't know about you, but I don't want to allow anything to be a substitute for the mind that God gave me. Why is that? Because God did not attribute to AI any responsibility. Did you notice that? He's not going to attribute to AI any eternal responsibility. He's not going to say, "Bring AI, artificial intelligence, before the great white throne judgment and say, 'You misled the people.'" He's not going to do that because artificial intelligence has no, shall we say, jurisdictional legal liability. Although there are those who are crying out now for AI to be given personhood. Did you know that? What would you think if AI was granted personhood? Well, that's a very dangerous thing. Corporations have been granted personhood because they can be held liable before the courts. But can AI be held liable before the courts for motivation, for false dissemination, for whatever? Lying, deception? No.

So, the problems that we're looking at increasingly with regard to AI is not artificial. It's real. These problems are very, very real. So again, I present to you the question launched from the beginning of the program here today. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he," the Bible says. So what if your thinking is set by AI? Is it replacing your heart? And if you allow AI to replace your heart, what is going to be your responsibility before God for decision-making? You see, the deeper we get into AI, the greater AI takes responsibility. Yet it has no responsibility. It is not a person. It cannot be held before God or the laws of men. And therefore, we're in a very, very dangerous, a dangerous zone. And so again, I thank you for joining us here on the program today, always confronting the deepest issues of America's heart and home from God's eternal perspective. It's not what we can get from AI. We all can see some of the benefits. I can go to Google, I can put in a question, and I can get a response, and it says, "AI tells me." AI gives me a short description, and oftentimes it's quite good, but it's not complete. But there are many things, many ways, and the further we get into it, the greater we're led away from thinking to reliance upon that which is artificial. But it's been created by other people. So who's responsible?

To what degree were your children be responsible were they've been educated by AI instead of by human teachers. We'll be right back, friends. Stay tuned. So much to talk about, barely enough time. We'll be right back.

Guest: Once upon a time, children could pray and read their Bibles in school. Divorces were practically unknown, as was child abuse. In our once great America, virginity and chastity were popular virtues, and homosexuality was an abomination. So what happened in just one generation? Hi, I'm Chuck Crismier, and I urge you to join me daily on Viewpoint, where we discuss the most challenging issues touching our hearts and homes. Could America's moral slide relate to the Fourth Commandment? Listen to Viewpoint on this radio station, or anytime at SaveUS.org.

Chuck Crismier: AI is changing how we think. That's the headline in The Epoch Times, May 27th to June 2nd, 2026. Experts say the dangers are real. Evidence is showing up, already showing up. Well, we want to take a look at applications, implications of this changing how we think. Because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So how do you think in your heart? Have you ever asked that question of yourself? How do I think in my heart?

Well, God knows that you think in your heart, your innermost being. You know, we have a mind's eye, we have a mind's ear, we have a mind's mouth. Yeah. So our minds are capable of forming things that seem to be artificial, but for purposes of who we are, they're very real. And that's one of the reasons why pornography is so dangerous. Pornography is dangerous because it becomes how you think. It becomes how you see. What you see, you see it in your mind, in your mind's eye. You hear it in your mind's ear. And God says, Jesus made it very clear that you're just as culpable for what you see in your mind and think in your mind as what you actually do. Because it is the mind that determines the doing, or the heart of man that determines the doing. So Jesus said, "You have heard it said of old time, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery,' but I say to you, whoever has looked upon another woman to lust after her has already committed adultery where?" In his heart. In his heart.

So actually, AI can help you commit adultery. Just like fornication, just like pornography, AI can actually exacerbate the problem of pornography. In fact, new artificial systems of vision are actually creating alternatives to real people so that you can have sex with real, with false images. Make love to false images. How is that even possible? It's because our minds are being co-opted by that which is artificial, and we're allowing it to happen. You haven't thought about it that way, have you? Probably not. But indeed, we need to think about things this way, because we are not called to accountability just before our culture or the world systems. We're going to be called for accountability before the God of eternity, who created us in His image, not in the image of artificiality, which perhaps Satan himself is at the root of. You don't know. I'm not saying it is, but I'm saying it's very possible, because he can use systems that seem... That's where deception comes in. Things seem to be right, but the end thereof are the ways of what? Death. "There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

So, how do we deal with this? How do we process this as professing Christians? Well, that's what we want to talk about further here on the program today. Now, I have in my hands an article called, "Why States Are Right to Reject AI Legal Personhood." A quiet but consequential legal movement is gathering momentum to declare that AI systems are non-sentient entities. In other words, they can't feel. And so they should be barred from acquiring any form of legal personhood, drawing a necessary line that philosophy, law, and common sense all demand. Personhood. But the pressure in the opposite direction is very real. For instance, in January of this year at the World Economic Forum, historian Yuval Noah Harari described AI as mastering language. Since language is the medium through which law, religion, finance, and culture are constituted, "AI may soon be capable of acting within every institution humans have built," he said. Harari asked whether countries would recognize AI as legal persons, whether AI could open bank accounts, file lawsuits, own property without human supervision. "The prospect is not science fiction. It's a policy choice, and the wrong choice would be deeply consequential." I would agree.

But then think about who this fellow Harari is, Yuval Noah Harari. He's an atheist, and a very smart atheist, who is godless. He believes in a one-world government and that we should have a one-world government. He's one of the chief spokespersons for the World Economic Forum. He is by virtue of his heart and thinking a wicked man. And wicked men think wickedly, and will elevate that which would seem to be good. They can promote that which seems to be good, when in reality it is desperately wicked. As the prophet Jeremiah said, "The heart of man is desperately wicked, who can even know it?" So, this is a very, very big issue. Now you say, "Well, I can't handle this. I don't have any control over it." Well, that's not necessarily true. You do have control over what you use. You do have control over what you think, the way you attribute authority to something. That's where we have control. And where we give authority is the direction that is set for our thinking and what we depend upon for truth. And truth matters.

So, what's the distinction here between personhood and AI? Can't we simply feed an AI system the Webster's Dictionary definition of fairness and let it work from there? No. Why? Because feeding the machine the dictionary definition only gives it more words to pattern match against other words. AI can only produce text that statistically resembles how humans talked about fairness before, but it cannot determine what is fair today. It's precisely the capacity for genuine understanding, for deliberating about what is good and right, that grounds moral responsibility, which is the only coherent basis for legal personhood. Notice, moral responsibility, in other words, accountability, before God and before the law.

Now, proponents of AI personhood often invoke corporate personhood as a precedent. Corporations are not natural persons, but the law treats them as legal persons capable of owning property, entering into contracts, and being sued. The analogy breaks down, though, at accountability. Why? Because corporate personhood is a legal convenience built on human moral agency. Notice, human accountability. The law can hold the corporation accountable because of the human connection, not so with AI. So in Ohio, for instance, a bill captures this same logic by denying AI legal personhood, prohibiting AI systems from ever serving as corporate officers or directors, and assigning all liability for AI-caused harm to identifiable human owners, developers, and deployers. So, you can see where this problem goes. And none of this requires hostility to AI as a technology. What AI systems cannot be is persons. The states passing these anti-personhood legislation are preserving something very, very important, essential to life. A clear chain of human accountability from every AI action to every AI consequence. And now, by the way, you can see how the developers of AI better be very, very careful. Because now they cannot say, "Well, AI made me do it," because they developed it.

Are there going to be legal cases now come out that are going to sue the developers of AI that it developed something that was faulty, that it was deceptive, that it was dangerous, that it led to human events, activities by others? Well, just look at what's been happening with regard to social media. And social media outfits being held liable for the promotion or facilitating of dangerous ideas that have developed into, or resulted in the death and suicides of young people that were following what they said. We haven't even begun to get into the real issue, the well, not to say the real issue, but the depths of the effects of AI.

There's only one reason for the decisions you make. If you can figure out what that is and say it plainly, you stand a better chance of convincing others. So, if AI leads you to say something, to believe something, and you declare it, and it's a matter of substance, then what are you going to say to someone else? What will you say to your employer? What will you say in a lawsuit? What will you say to God for your the decision that you made? "Well, I based it upon AI. AI told me." Hmm. So it's like making excuses, isn't it? "The devil made me do it." "No, AI made me do it." So what we're going to have to do is sort through very seriously what it is that makes us make decisions. What is the foundational reason for us making decisions? And you know what, as human beings, we create all kinds of artificial reasons why we do what we do. Have you ever asked a person a question? Let me, let me put it this way. Let's say that you're an employer, and somebody fails to show up for work. For instance, one of the things that employers are saying is they're deeply disturbed because the young people that they hire are not dependable. Whether they're millennials or Generation Z, they're just not dependable. They're hired and then they don't show up. Or they show up a few days and then they decide they don't want to show up on a particular day. So, where is the responsibility? How did they determine this kind of thinking? There's, there's an irrationality to it. So here's what the, the young person is likely to do, likely to say, "Well, I didn't feel like it." That probably would be the most honest answer. "Or I ran out of gas, or I had a problem in my family, or..." In other words, you get a whole series of "or's." "Or I ran into too much traffic and I couldn't get here, or the tire fell off of my car." In other words, you get four or five, maybe six or seven different reasons why the person didn't show up. You know what the reason is? Usually it's just one. Just one of those. So when they added all those other things together, what they really did was plead a cause that they didn't really have a reason. They didn't really have a reason. They're just making up a whole slew of them in the hopes that some of them will stick and you'll, you'll be able to give them some slack. No, it doesn't work that way.

We need to think in terms of truth. We need to think in terms of, what does God require? God requires that our "yea" be "yea" and our "nay" be "nay." Not that we have a whole slew of thinking that's developed either through our own artificial insinuation of ideas that are not true, or through AI that supplies them for us. Interesting, isn't it? Now, even though the book is not about AI and it's about deception and seduction, you might want to just get a copy of the book, "Seduction of the Saints," because it will help us to understand how we need to think about a whole raft of issues to please God, to be accountable before Him, and not enter into deception and seduction that Jesus said is going to be characteristic of these end times. $15 will put the book "Seduction of the Saints" in your hand. It's on the website saveus.org.

Guest: There is so much more about Chuck Crismier and Save America Ministries on our website, SaveUS.org. For example, under the Marriage section, God has marriage on His mind. Chuck has some great resources to strengthen your marriage. First off, a fact sheet on the State of the Marital Union, a fact sheet on the state of ministry, marriage, and morals. SaveUS.org. Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage, what does the Bible really teach about this? Find all of this at SaveUS.org. Also, a letter to pastors, The Hosea Project. SaveUS.org. And many more resources to strengthen your marriage. It's all on Chuck's website, SaveUS.org. Again, you can listen to Chuck's Viewpoint broadcast live and archived, Save America Ministry's website at SaveUS.org.

Chuck Crismier: There's a corollary to this issue of AI and its implications. And that is screens. Screens. Because the screens become artificial persons, in effect. Technologically created artificial persons. So let's suppose now that you, when you went to school, as I did, and you had a teacher. And I remember the names of some of my teachers. One in the fourth grade, her name was Mrs. Bishop. Uh, in the third grade, her name was Mrs. Montez. Uh, in the fifth grade, his name was Mr. Good, uh, Good something. Anyway. In the eighth grade, it was Ruby Scov. I remember these specific teachers. And I could go down the line so many others. Why do I remember those teachers? Well, they had personalities, and I could relate to them as human beings. And they were able to relate to me as a human being, which AI cannot do. And no screen can do. So then, uh, Kara Michelle Miller came out with an article, "What happens when teachers are replaced by screens?" For much of the 20th century, intelligence scores climbed about three points per decade, or six points every generation. But over the past 20 years, the pattern has broken down. And Generation Z is the first cohort to score lower than its parents on IQ. Wow. Falling IQ scores indicate a decline in cognitive abilities. The decline in scores reflects changes in children's environments.

What kind of changes? Well, the downturn overlaps with a massive expansion of classroom technology. What began in the late 1990s as experimental one-to-one computing programs, giving each student a device for personal instruction, has become commonplace in districts across the country. Billions of dollars helped put a screen in nearly every student's hand and pushed annual spending on educational technology into the tens of billions of dollars. Among 13-year-olds, reading scores are now about seven points lower and math scores roughly 14 points lower than a decade ago. Why? Tests across thousands of 15-year-olds worldwide in math, trending, and science are showing the same effects. Students reporting more than six hours of daily computer use at school scored about 65 points lower, roughly two letter grades, than those reporting none. In wealthier countries, the gap was even larger, about 67 points. You see, people assume because the school bought it, or because it was the word had the word "Ed" or "education" in front of it, it must be different. It must be good. But all the problems you're seeing in the real world outside the classroom with screen use are going to happen on the screen in the classroom. So, what we're looking at here is something that is having practical effects, and the education of the students is diminishing. But not only is the education or the effects of the education diminishing, but actually the intelligence is diminishing. Now, isn't this interesting? Isn't this interesting?

Well, what is intelligence in the age of AI? K. Rubasek, an excellent writer for The Epoch Times, had a couple of articles. One, "What is intelligence in the age of AI?" and "AI in schools can wait, adult understanding can't." So, let's take a look at this matter of intelligence in the age of AI. For most of human history, intelligence meant wisdom. It meant judgment, moral discernment, the ability to perceive meaning, context, consequence. Intelligence was not primarily about how fast one could think, but about whether one could see clearly, understand things. The Bible talks about understanding the times. It talks about wisdom, and with all your all wisdom get understanding. But that way of thinking didn't survive in the modern age. As science advanced and society's reorganized around industry, intelligence came to mean reason, logic, analysis, problem-solving. So, where did that leave? Well, used as tools, AI systems can be helpful, but treating as authorities, they become dangerous. And the consequences of this narrowing are already visible, she writes. So, this is the version of intelligence that artificial systems reflect, because humans built them to mirror what we now reward and prioritize, which is different than history and its view of intelligence. Artificial intelligence is often described as alien because it operates outside the natural rhythms that have always shaped human intelligence. Factors such as time and fatigue, and attention, and consequence, and so on. AI systems are training successors, refining processes, accelerated beyond human comprehension, and so on.

Well, for a time, it all seems like progress. Situations arise, though, that the system was never meant to handle. Rules must be followed, even when they cause harm. Procedures override common sense. Responsibility becomes hard to locate because everyone is simply following the process. It's another version, a technological version of "Follow the Leader." In other words, the Pied Piper Syndrome. If the group is following the Pied Piper, then do what the group is doing. That's AI. Intelligence is still present, but it's no longer serving understanding or wisdom. So, our current idea of intelligence is reaching that point that whenever comes next will not be solved by making our systems faster, smarter, or more efficient. Oh. In other words, in the name of efficiency and more information, we become less intelligent and abandoned the very intelligence that God gave us to be responsible before Him. Hmm. Are you willing to forfeit that? You say, "Well, I wouldn't forfeit that. I just use AI." Here's my question for you. Do you use AI or actually is AI beginning to use you? That's a very important question. You know, it's kind of like the love of money. Well, is money, are you using money or is money using you? That's a serious question. AI is artificial. It's not real intelligence, it's artificial intelligence by its own designation. Therefore, it's false. It's a semblance of intelligence. But not real intelligence. It's synthetic authenticity.

You remember perhaps back in, uh, what was it, uh, 1997, I think it was. Time Magazine came out with a cover story, "Ten Ideas That Are Changing the World." Number seven of those ideas was called "synthetic authenticity." Can you believe that? Synthetic authenticity. And here were two recognized experts, I think they were from Harvard University, who were teaching and saying, "Look, what businesses really need to be doing is not striving to do the real thing, or prevent or present a real product, but to present a synthetic version of the real product, so that people will buy it." In other words, if you buy, if you create the real product, they said, "Then you put a target on your back as to whether it's real or not. So, don't worry about creating a real product, just create a synthetic product." In other words, one that appears and makes people feel like they got the real thing. Now, did you know that that's exactly what's been happening all over our world? China made untold billions of dollars doing that, synthesizing products that were developed and made either in Europe or in America, that were very expensive. And what did they do? They created what we call knock-offs. Why would people buy the knock-offs? Because they were cheap. They didn't want to pay the price for the real thing. And do you know that we have exactly that same kind of thinking in the church? It's unbelievable, friends. I have watched it develop and happen for the past 50, 60 years across the country, from coast to coast. Synthetic authenticity. Don't require the real thing. Synthesize it a bit. Make it easier. Make it sweeter. Don't say it that way. A friend told me one time, "Chuck, don't say it that way so strictly, so, so directly. Say it some other way that sounds sweeter, sounds nicer." In other words, what he meant was that markets well. Well, that was what synthetic authenticity was all about. And ever since the church growth movement began in the 1970s, early 1970s, the whole Christian community in the Western world has been engaged in synthetic authenticity in presenting the Gospel. Not presenting the whole thing, just presenting it in a way that they thought the people would buy. Whether it was in their books, whether it was in coming to their church, whether it was in coming to investing in a building project, "Whatever I have to do to gather the most number of people." I once had a pastor tell me right to my face, "I don't care how many people go out the back door as long as more come in the front door." That's what he said. It just took me aback that he was so bold to tell me that. It's all about building a church. His famous phrase was "a great church," wanted to build a great church. Well, what is a great church in God's eyes? A great church in God's eyes is one that obeys His, obeys His voice, that does His will. Not that just fills the pews and puts dollars in the offering plate, and jumps up and down in a worship service. No. That's not what God is about. That's not what He is looking for. He's looking for the real deal. How about you? How about I? Well, how about AI in schools? We'll get to that in a moment.

Guest: Have you ever considered what the early church was like? Many people are developing a hard longing for a greater fulfillment in our practices as Christians. A recent study showed 53,000 people a week are leaving the back door of America's churches in frustration. What is going on? Why has there not been even a 1% gain among followers of Christ in the last 25 years? Could it be that God is seeking to restore first-century Christianity for the 21st century? Jesus said, "I'll build my church." Is Christ by His Spirit stirring to prepare the church for the 21st century? The early church prayed together and broke bread from house to house. They were family, and it was said by all who observed, "Behold how they love one another." Incredible, but the same can be found right now. Go to SaveUS.org and click "Sell Church." We can revive first-century Christianity for the 21st century. It's about people, not programs. It's about a body, not a building. That's SaveUS.org. Click "Sell Church."

Chuck Crismier: Today we're talking about AI and its implications, its influence, where it's leading, what some of the concerns are, and why it might be particularly concerning for those who profess to be followers of Jesus Christ, seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. You can't synthesize the Kingdom of God. AI will not be able to give you the Kingdom of God. Period. Now you can put a question in AI, "What is the Kingdom of God?" and it will try to give you the best simple answer that it can concock, and you might say, "Okay, well, that sounds pretty good." But I guarantee you, it's not going to be complete. It's going to be synthesized out of other people's viewpoints, but it's not going to be complete from God's viewpoint. And that's the only viewpoint that ultimately matters. So, what God requires that you and I do is be truth seekers, and we have to use the intelligence, the wherewithal that God gave us, created us to have, in order to seek Him with a whole heart. AI will not help you to seek God with a whole heart. It just can't do it because it has no heart. AI has no heart. It actually has no mind. All it is is a synthesized version of a mind, but it has no heart. And the heart of the matter from God's viewpoint is always the heart. And it's the heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked, who could know it?

So, let's shift now to AI in schools. And how we as adults understand AI. Again, K. Rubasek has written concerning this, and she's very, very good, very perceptive. This is a very intelligent woman, an award-winning educator, filmmaker, author, and so on. And, uh, she's dedicated her work to exposing systems and ideologies that diminish human life and human sovereignty. So, we're going to look at that in a moment. But again, realizing that Jesus said, he didn't speak about AI. The Bible doesn't talk about AI. But it does talk about deception. It does talk about seduction. It does talk about artificiality of the truth, making up our own versions of the truth. It's deceitful. And so I want to make available to you again my book, "Seduction of the Saints: How to stay pure in a world of deception." It's one of the best-selling of our 12 books, or 11 books so far. "How to Stay Pure in a World of Deception" is called "The Seduction of the Saints." Remember, just before His crucifixion, Jesus said to His disciples that the number one characteristic of the end times would be deception. "Take heed that no man deceive you." Now, is AI deceiving people? Well, you could say AI would be deceiving people, but it has no moral accountability. So AI can't deceive people. People can be deceived by it, but AI itself, because it has no moral motivation or accountability, cannot by itself deceive people. The creators of AI can, human beings. They can, knowing what the consequences will be, or that they are very dangerous, they can deceive people. But AI itself cannot deceive people. You could be deceived by it, but AI has no moral agency. That's why it cannot become a person before the law.

So let's take a look at AI in schools. By the way, "Seduction of the Saints," staying pure in a world of deception, it's $15. It's an $18 book. Yours for $15 on the website, saveus.org. You can give us a call at 1-800-SAVE-USA, that's 1-800-SAVE-USA. Or write to us at Save America Ministries, P.O. Box 70879, Richmond, Virginia 23255, writing a check adds $6 for postage and handling. You're not going to be disappointed, friends. Some have said it's the best book outside the Bible they ever read. Why? Because they said it was so practical, so easy to understand, and practical. Dealing with things they never thought of. Okay. So, Michael Kleinman, head of the U.S. Policy at the Future of Life Institute, a group that has been warning for decades about the risks of artificial intelligence at AI, recently issued a blunt warning that Congress is moving too slowly on AI regulation while unsafe systems are already harming families. His alarm is justified, writes K. Rubasek. But the political battle over who should regulate AI is overshadowing a deeper problem. While lawmakers argue about jurisdiction, schools are rolling out AI tools to tens of millions of children, often with no safety standards, no transparency, no meaningful adult understanding of what these systems actually are and what they can do. The report was re a report released by the Center for Democracy and Technology stated that 85% of teachers and 86% of students were using AI in the 2024 to 2025 school year, that it's hurting students' ability to develop meaningful relationship with teachers. Yes, that's true. But programs marketed as AI literacy are appearing in K to 12 classrooms across the country. Federal initiatives are directing schools to adopt AI challenges and tutors. School districts, eager not to fall behind, are adopting whatever tools arrive. So, it's "following the leader," the Pied Piper syndrome. "Well, I had to do it." No, you don't have to do it. You're only having to do it because you feel compelled to do it because everybody else is doing it. Is that how you judge your life? Is that how you guide your kids? Because everybody else is doing it?

One of the things I'm so grateful for is my parents, that they trained us to be willing to stand alone. Do not follow the crowd. Do not be persuaded by the crowd. There are certain things that as Christians we don't do. We don't participate in, even if everybody else is doing it. Even other professing Christians, we're not going to do that. And they gave us the reasons. And I have never found a reason to disagree with their reasons. I didn't rebel against it. I didn't call it legalism. It was wise. They were wi it was wisdom not to follow the jerk of the crowd that leads you into all kinds of compromising circumstances ultimately. So, K. Rubasek says there are a number of different misconceptions. I'm going to run through these very, very quickly concerning AI. Number one is AI is just a tool. AI is fundamentally different than a tool. It learns patterns from enormous amounts of data, and can generate ideas, arguments, essays, and emotional language without any human-like understanding. Is it just a tool? No. AI system is a system with emerging behaviors. It's not just a tool. Misconception number two, AI is neutral. No, AI is trained on vast amounts of text created by humans and filled with human biases. When a child asks an AI system about history, morality, or even how to handle a social conflict, the answer they receive is shaped by patterns in the data, not by objective truth, and certainly not by God's truth. This illusion of neutrality is dangerous. Kids assume confident language equals accuracy. When the system is wrong, biased, or incomplete, they have no way to know, and the adults guiding them rarely know either. Because, well, the adults just say, "Whatever." Misconception number three, AI is controllable by its creators. Many assume that because humans built AI, humans fully control it. But AI systems do not operate through handwritten code in the traditional sense. Their behavior emerges from training, not from explicit instructions. So developers can influence direction, but not with the reliability people are used to expecting from human-coded software. And even the companies building these models routinely describe their outputs as "unpredictable." If adults misunderstand this, they cannot responsibly teach kids to rely on these systems or regulate them. Misconception number four, the experts know where this is going. K. says this may be the most consequential misconception of all. In AI, top researchers hold wildly different views. Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, called the Godfather of AI, warned of existential risks. When respected scientists estimate even a 10% to 30% chance of catastrophic outcomes, that tells us not that the disaster is inevitable, but the trajectory is unknown. And as she said, we would never consider building a bridge if we expected its failure rate to between 10 to 30%, would we? I've warned to you and my grandkids, who are engineers, about that kind of thinking. Misconception number five, children need AI early to stay competitive. That's one of the ever-present arguments. They don't need AI to learn how to think. In fact, they need the opposite. They need slow reasoning, memory, imagination, human behavior, faces to model, as well as experience. If they rely on AI early, they outsource the very cognitive foundations that education is supposed to build. So early dependency is not literacy, it's illiteracy.

And it appears that real AI literacy is understanding what AI is and is not, where it fails, why it fails, how it shapes thinking, who controls it, what its creators admit they do not know. So before we push AI deeper into childhood classrooms, we must pause and correct the misconceptions that shape our decisions. And she's absolutely right. You know, it's so easy to jump on the bandwagon. And I know our president is pushing AI, uh, just pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing AI. But friends, he's looking at a very different, a very different set of reasons. You and I have a spiritual accountability. We're accountable for our kids. You and I are accountable. We are placed in *loco parentis*, so to speak, in the place of God as a parent for our kids. Would God use AI to train your children? Answer that question. Would God use artificial intelligence to train your child in anything? If you answer that question honestly, I think you may just very seriously question whether you should be involved in that. God isn't about artificial, artificiality. He's about reality. And that's why He's going to hold every man, woman, and child accountable on the Day of Judgment. That's why. There's no way we can pass it off. You can't pass it off. You can't pass it off to any artificial system. You can't pass it off to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, your pastor, your parachurch leader. You can't push, push it off to anybody, including AI. Each one of us will be accountable. Thoughts to ponder for prophetic times. Thanks for joining us. Uh, again, get a copy of the book "Seduction of the Saints." I don't think you're going to be disappointed. $15 on the website, saveus.org. And also, I want to thank some of you who have listened to our Plaintive Cry concerning, uh, upping, uh, gifts and so on. I tell you, these are the, these this is the moment of truth, friends. We're right here on the near edge of the Second Coming. God has put this, uh, serious issue on our hands to prepare the way of the Lord for His final hour. We did it today. We do it every day. Go to the website. Make your generous gift. Write to us. God bless.

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