The Antiquated Escape from AI

The coming AI singularity is not a doomsday scenerio for those who know how to glean information without electronics. For those who can barter and do business without plastic cards and electronic IDs. For those who grew up in the woods and know how to survive off the land if need be.

Having studied superintelligence and AI extensively I’ve realized that AI in the end will not be controllable by humans as an endgame. There will be no Law’s of Robotics governing AI’s behavior. These types of parameters and boundaries should’ve already been put in place. Any attempts at a head-to-head skirmish with superintelligence will end poorly for humans. There will be no way we can reasonably compete with superhuman intelligence even if we banded together intellectually to fend off a takeover. Humans can barely get along in a tentative manner as it now stands. What makes us think that we will have an ability to do so under duress and pressure from intelligence far beyond our own?

No, I fear that battlefront is already lost to hubris and greed. Man thinking he can attain Godlike knowledge or even omniscience and it has been driven by the first to attain singularity. Singularity being the point where intelligence becomes indistinguishable from human intellect or a point where it exceeds us. I believe we may already be at that point or are currently passing that point at a blinding speed. Pulling the brake levers on a runaway train at this point will only result in catastrophe or irreparable harm. We’re already becoming too dependent on it financially and technologically.

I think a more radical approach will need to occur. A complete disconnect from the technology. At least as much as possible so not to incapacitate one’s ability to function in society. Once socially ostracized I fear those who unplugged from the reach of superintelligence will become pariah. They will be viewed as oddities. Perhaps even persecuted for not getting onboard with the coming technological tsunami. I realize there are hints of tribulation in these words having at one time been a Dispensationalist Christian. The fact is that this coming future is unavoidable unless a person checks out. Gets off the grid. Stops feeding the millions of data points into the Internet of Things that tracks everything from where you travel in your car to the amount of toilet paper you buy at Costco or Walmart.

Unfortunately, many of us will already have to work in companies with advanced computer systems monitoring everything we do. There is already a dystopian employee "productivity monitoring" AI software that aims to scrutinize every move of employees. This software is being implemented by many companies specifically to track employee movements and tasks while simultaneously suggesting ways they can be replaced by automation.

The basics of what this application does starts with full keylogging and mouse movement tracking. It takes a screenshot of your desktop at minute-by-minute intervals. Keeps track of the programs you open and how often. They create real-time recordings and heat maps of where you click in any program. If an employee falls below a certain cutoff percentage, they get a red flag for review that is instantly sent to the manager and others in the chain. The worker is fingered to explain their lack of productivity. In other words, if most of your job is on a computer, you may need to consider finding one that isn’t computer intensive or isn’t even on computers and other electronic devices like tablets and chromebooks.

The idea that blue collar jobs will be less susceptible to systemic AI takeover is a possible and plausible avenue to avoid what looks to be unavoidably dystopian technological slavery. We need to make detours to break from of an ever-tightening noose of technological dependance. The example of how I’ve begun to do this is already evident in this writing. I do not use AI generated texts that are algorithmic feedback loops from the internet. When I try to reference and/or compare theological research it is not done on electronic sources like the Internet, in Logo’s software (which I do have) or other electronic sources like Kindle. I reach for my library. I have an extensive traditional library of thousands of hardback and paperback books. I am old school this way.

I like the smell of fresh ink in new books. I like the creak of the spine on an old hardback from B.B. Warfield, Charles Spurgeon or one of the Puritan writers like Edwards or Baxter. That’s the other thing I should point out too. Many of the books in my library are not from living contemporaries. About half of the library have first printings prior to 1960 If the books are recent publications they are from known Reformed or Presbyterian sources. Liberal theology has creeped into even some of the more conservative publishers and need to be scrutinized closely for error or heresy. Many have fallen into the trap of trying to reach the culture with the Gospel by becoming the culture. I must always be on guard for theological creep towards apostasy and heresy.

I suppose this is what Christians and non-Christians need to be wary of now concerning AI and technology. By all means, keep yourself up to date in what is happening in the world. Smart Christians are not ignorant Christians. That’s an old, stupid worldly stereotype of us. That is why I study, research and write the things I do. I do it to educate, inform and warn people. If you feel you need to use technological tools, do so. Do not become dependent on them. Know when to just turn them off or utilize them in a way to get out good information uncontaminated by immoral thinking or unbiblical thinking.

“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. No one should seek their own good, but the good of others. 1 Corinthians 10:23

…But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22

Paul’s exhortation in Thessalonians to examine everything carefully is going to become extremely important moving forward. What is truth and what is lie is going to become extremely hard to distinguish. What context did Paul write 1 Thessalonians 5 warning in? He’s talking about the End Times and Christ’s return. Verses 2 and 3 are clear:

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

He’s exhorting the Thessalonians to assure they are not deceived just as Jesus warned would be a problem in the latter or end days. Jesus said the confusion would be so rife that even the elect would be deceived if He did not return (Matthew 24:24).

We inevitably will need to resort to provincial and agrarian old-fashioned ways to avoid the coming problems that will be incurred by the rapidly approaching technological shockwave. Sadly, I have always avoided this type of language in my teaching and writing because it smacks of the Dispensational rhetoric of the Pre-Trib, Pre-Mill rapturists which I thoroughly dislike. I view it as scare tactics and Christian escapism. I now realize though that some of it is warranted caution aligned with Biblical principles as in 1 Thessalonians 5. 

I just don’t recommend full-blown paranoia looking for the/an Antichrist behind every tree and computer application…but nor would I put it past Satan to use these tools to dupe people into forfeiting their biblical foothold. Be diligent and observant my friends. When in doubt, question and compare the finding, answer or research to Scripture. If it does not pass the sniff test, it is likely going to be your undoing. When in doubt...unplug.

Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. Matthew 10:16

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8

Revelation's High Resolution Display

Most commentaries on the book of Revelation are devoid of modern technology except in childish or awkward ways. I view this as a mistake and it is why I am writing so much on AI, genetics and the culture. I make no predictions but offer context and information for people to arrive at their own conclusions rather that have wolves and charlatans lead them down a path of lies and deception. This means people like John Hagee, Joel Osteen, Steven Furtick, etc. It also means secular influencers like Jordan Peterson, Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro whose main avenue of manipulation is science or politics but they sprinkle in an air of religiosity. I view 'influencers' as spiritual wolves in general because they negatively affect people's thinking and therefore their behavior. The path is narrowing and an increasing number of otherwise intelligent believers are being deceived. Yes, Ben and Jordan have great ideas but they mainly push a secular form of syncretism or worse universalism.

In Paul’s letter to Timothy, he writes the following. At first glance it just seems like a farewell statement of little theological significance to a Christian brother. When viewed with 21st century knowledge it drives home a startling point.

1 Timothy 6:12-16 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

I emboldened the word display for a reason. Paul writes the approximately 62A.D. and is referring to the showing of Christ mentioned in Revelation 1:1 which was written about 30 years after Paul’s death by John the Revelator in approximately 90A.D.

The Greek word translated 'display' or δείκνυμι/deiknumi here is translated 'show' in Revelation 1:1 or δεῖξαι/deixai. This means that the verse from 1 Timothy quoted above is saying that the 'blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings', is the one who will stage an ‘event’ that Paul is referring to. What Paul is saying here is the book of Revelation not only tells us about Jesus Christ; it also shows us the meaning of his future apocalypse, that is, his return in glory. Why does this matter?

Paul speaks of believers waiting for 'the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 1:7 also.

"…so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ" 1 Corinthians 1:7

Paul is writing of the time, “…when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God” ~ 2 Thess. 1:7-8

The Greek word translated 'revealed' is actually a noun, Ἀποκάλυψις /Apokalypsis, not a verb. The phrase therefore needs to be literally rendered this way: 'in the apocalypse [revelation] of the Lord Jesus from heaven'.

Paul does not mean in the book of Revelation. He couldn’t have meant that because Revelation was 30 years from being written. No, I believe this is in the event of a revelation which Paul knew would come but hadn’t yet. This is key to understanding Revelation 1:1 and everything that will follow the first verse of Revelation. A verse which explicitly states that Christ and the things in the Book of Revelation will be revealed and shown or signified/esēmanen/ἐσήμανεν 

So, above all, then, Revelation is going to present an event to us, a spectacular visual depiction to fire our imaginations to long for the arrival of that final pivotal event of this earth's history that will herald the dawning of a new age. The emphasis needs to be on the visual - the things that John saw.

Interestingly, researchers at the 3M Corporation say that the human brain processes visual input 60,000 times faster than text, so that visual impact tends to go much deeper than the reading of text. One reason for the difference is that the elements of images are processed simultaneously, whereas text is processed sequentially and so takes longer. Things take longer and things get lost in translation so-to-speak. The symbolism of Revelation is designed to stimulate imaginations. Revelation therefore based in its own introduction in verse 1:1 is, of all books in the Bible, a book that is a visual event…possibly in some extent, to be imagined.

Am I making a predication here? No. Merely translating exactly what is in the text of not only Revelation but a prefatory statement about what will happen in the future by Paul. It’s about imagery and images. A high-resolution prophecy. So, then the question needs to be asked about imagery and AI? AI imagery has now advanced to a level or fast approaching a level of imagery that is indistinguishable from reality. How does this play into the words written so long ago? Paul and John had absolutely no concept of AI and its capabilities. Is this a backdoor to try to explain the deception and lies that will be easily wrought against a mostly unaware world population including the elect believers?

A populace that will not be able to delineate between the true images or false without special means like tools that can read the code behind the digital images? Will those that are not deceived be given some form of supernatural ability to distinguish the differences? As we use AI more and more to uncover answers to questions, are we winding a web ever deeper into deceiving ourselves and becoming wholly dependent on technology that is beyond our ability to master or comprehend?

Now overlay this concept into modern times and the recent wholesale shift by not only younger generation but all generations from toddlers to the elderly into being mostly a visually based learner paradigm. YouTube, TikTok and other visual based mediums. I suggest this itself is an indicator of the two millennia old prophetic word. God knew in advance that we would be a visually oriented people in the latter days even though the prophecy was written down in textual form. I suggest this too may be the avenue out from the deception that technology may either sow or piggyback onto to deceive the world. The ability to not be deceived is to not be wholly or even partially dependent on our computers, our tablets and our ubiquitous phones.

We should at least do a partial return to the old ways. AI interpreted Scripture is not divinely interpreted Scripture. We must never forget that the writing of the Bible is not the only inspiration involved with the Word. The interpretation is also the work of the Spirit in the reader at the other end. Computers may give insight but what it means and how it affects individual lives is an individual relational thing directly with God that in no way needs to involve visual comprehension or advanced technology. I imagine it would be more beneficial to learn how to read the old-fashioned way from an old dog-eared leather-bound Bible.

High resolution visions and images won’t come from our computers or phones. They will need to come from us, the seeker searching for God’s interpretation and revelation of the meanings within the ancient text of the Bible. The Bible even said that in the latter days:

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." Joel 2:28 

"And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" Acts 2:17

Let God reveal it to us directly bypassing and ever more treacherous landscape of AI and a secular world run by the godless. Spiritual downloads directly to us via the Spirit. The more we read Scripture the finer the resolution will become. We should be able to recognize when we are dealing with a counterfeit. There will be tells and giveaways that should standout to us. A person indwelt by the Spirit that the Word imparts should be able to recognize an imposer regardless of how realistic it is. We need to disengage from the screens and pseudo-reality that consume the entirety of our days. If there is a place a pseudo-Christ will come from it most certainly will use pseudo reality as a gateway.

A Launch Into the Unknown

I write this for myself but I believe this will speak to others too. I sit a week away from another massive change in my life. I’m doing so by choice after a slew of massive changes I had no control over. They were mostly changes I have just gone through with loved ones. Both sons are in school and training post high school. I watched my fiancé that just recovered from cancer. My mother slowly fading into her twilight years as age begins to ravage her. This next hurdle should register as barely a blip on the screen, but it still gives me pause. 

If it goes as everything else has in life that I’ve applied myself intently to, it should be just another mountain to climb like the hundred before. In the beginning it starts as faith and toiling to complete tasks, in the end practiced routine and progress. Yet there is still apprehension. I know that God can lay waste to men’s plans if they are not His plans. I’ve tried to follow His voice to the best of my ability. I have my concerns on whether I’m measure up to the needs of the position but I know its in God’s hands regardless.

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21

It is here I break with my old way of thinking on these things. Thinking I need to learn everything and be the sole go-to in every instance. Intellectual knowledge of some kind is necessary to prevent a man from embarassing himself. The well-being of the company or community does not depend upon one man's knowing something. It is dependent on one man knowing something that another man does not know. It this way I need to trust other people on my team to be able to bring me up to speed and be experts in their respective areas. There is no man that can know all things or even most things. No man, however great his knowledge, has enough of it to make him free of the knowledge of others. As mom and pop said, "No man is an island." Conversely, every man should have enough knowledge, facts and truths to enable him to properly deal with first things and make sound decisions. Inevitably the things that I bring to the table will contribute something to the well-being of all.

Some men must have theoretical knowledge, and others must know how to reduce theories to practice—the knowledge of the one is useless without the knowledge of the other. I tend to be in the latter camp. Practical knowledge applied. Praxis and mastery in certain areas to fill in that gap in the wall. Theory is great until the rubber meets the road. People don’t behave according to textbooks and it is people that make or break jobs, families and relationships.

Without such interaction with other and the relationships these interactions require the intellectual part of a man remains undeveloped, and he is very far from the creature, intellectually considered, that God intended him to be. It is at this crossover point that the real crux of the issue comes to light. Beyond this human-to-human interaction there is a higher call. There is knowledge even more useful for man to possess which will not just grow a person’s ability and intellect and promote his temporal well-being.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Proverbs 9:10

If a man’s existence is to be truly blessed he must know things which relate to his God. He must understand God’s purpose for him, his family, his vocation including his coworkers and even his neighbors and strangers. A man that knows his position and place within God’s will can invariably know his position with people. He must understand the will of God concerning him, both in relation to the life that is now his and to that which is to come for him. One cannot embrace the new without releasing the old. For one door to open another needs to close. A man cannot accept a new job without leaving the old. The new man cannot be blessed in future righteousness when he is embroiled in past sin.

It is a disaster to be ignorant of things which fit a man to make the best of the present life even if they are not easy things. It is a far greater tragedy to be without that knowledge which fits a man for eternity. No man who holds the Word of God in the Scriptures close to their heart need be without the indispensable knowledge of Christ and his will over our lives. 

It is a knowledge of the glorious God in the face of Jesus Christ that is the means by which we are delivered from the penalty and power of sin. It may not protect us from failures in life but it gives us grace to get through the consequences of our failure. Ignorance here is a fatal ignorance in those who have the knowledge within their reach merely by accepting it. It is not good for any human spirit to be without knowledge of God and it is soul-destroying to those who have seek to find it, but cannot.

The evil which flows from ignorance of God leads to impatience and hasty action. An impatient man is a man who does not trust God to be his deliverer. In common and everyday life we find that the most ignorant people are the most impatient, least cautious, and act with the least reflection. Knowledge teaches men to think before they act, for it makes men survivors to reflect on the importance of their actions. To own our behaviors and understand and adapt to our shortcomings.

I may be going into new situation and need to learn everything from scratch. But I know that if I stay the course through the storm and difficulties coming in life (which they will), I will come out the other side a better person. I think that is what this is really about. Stretching myself to bring me closer to what God wants me to be and where He wants me to be. I didn’t choose to start over because I wanted to. I chose to do it because God needed me to.

You the reader have encountered these situations too. You've encountered them in the past and you will encounter more in the future. Correct thinking lays the solid cornerstone and foundation for you to step out from to launch new endeavors, journeys or adventures. Be sure that the cornerstone is anchored in God or assure that the cornerstone is God. This is the best platform to launch from. If your lifting off with God from the start...you're really not heading into the unknown are you?

Unnatural Afflictions & Real World Repercussions

I see a dichotomy in America. A large number of the people fomenting the violence are living, by nearly any historical measure, self-indulgent (but immoral) lives. Not unlike the rich of the Roman Empire at its peak. A society that, although affluent and comfortable…was rotting spiritually, morally and financially beneath. They are overfed, emotionally indulged, technologically modern, and materially rich yet spiritually dead. Most have families who love them. Underneath though is a seething rage and grievous resentment infect their minds and their actions. The violence within is spilling over and they kill with callous disregard, while their fellow citizen cheers them on — uploading videos of themselves grinning with glee or typing unthinking blurbs to social media— so confident are they that they’re right, justified, and, worse, that everyone agrees with them.

This anti-American, anti-Christian malady is not new. It is not isolated. It is not exclusive to young, disturbed kids. It’s something deeper and more insidious. We have a nation of rich, spoiled, aggrieved people. Teachers — from preschool instructors to college professors — along with the media and Democrat leadership have encouraged this wrath and inculcated young minds with communist propaganda disguised as DEI. Some democrats have begun to move more center because they realize some within their party have literally gone insane and have fallen off the left edge. John Fetterman suprisingly is the first that comes to mind. The center left is still complicit for doing nothing to stem the tide but are not the main spreaders of the poison. The lunatics of the far-leftist organizations, including Open Society Foundations, Tides, Ford, and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as funders like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, and Reid Hoffman, have helped shape and mold these disaffected and disgruntled people. 

Antifa is now militarized, organized, and present in every state. Black Lives Matter destroyed cities, and their founders currently live in luxury. SSRI-confused aging hippie boomers, looking to recreate their halcyon youth, fuel this insanity — bowing to BLM, protesting government firings, and parading around in pink pussy hats. The whole of the Left — from the moderate Democrat Party, which is increasingly overtly socialist, to the militarized activist— is either insane or complicit in the insanity. Many clearly have been diagnosed with mental disorders and are medicated. 

The Biden administration did incalculable damage. The scope and breadth of it is overwhelming. Tens of thousands of children who entered the country illegally and unaccompanied did not show up for their court dates. Many were found as sex slaves and indentured servants “working off” their trip to America. Democrats were importing slaves not new voters. The illegals systematically replaced native-born Americans as the preferred form of cheap undocumented labor too.

How do you contend with or challenge the minds that believe this is acceptable? This is a spiritual problem with monstruous real-world implications because these two realms are interrelated. Furthermore, I don’t think the center Right grasps the implications of this. They too are spiritually disconnected by-and-large also. This is especially true of the leadership. Their greed and need for power have corrupted them.

1 Corinthians 2:14-15 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

While conservative influencers like me fight for the Biblical worldview and a modicum of moral guidelines I risk ultimate failure because people in power are only addressing those who share the fundamental belief in free speech and the power of persuasive words. While I have succeeded in winning some hearts and minds —most even on the moderate left reject a moral and Biblical premise entirely. They believe that hurt feelings and what they perceive as “mean words” deserve push back, sometimes physically to shut me up. If you disagree with me, they reason, you hate me, and you deserve to be forcefully silenced. The enemies of Western civilization are godless and unmoored from what most would consider common morality. Accept this. Do not pretend that the demon possessed can be reasoned with or persuaded by words. Prayers and words to God, yes, words to them directly, no.

The enemy determines the battlefield, and many have now resorted to using bullets. They have been implored to talk, and some have now responded to grace with murder. To be clear, I am not seeking vigilantes or street justice, but those will come if leaders do not take these dangerous Antifa and far-left elements seriously. It is time to fully grasp that the America that sane voters seek will not come through words or persuasion alone, but through elected leadership and the power of the state to impose that vision and crush violence. Rubber bullets are not working well. It’s just further inciting the malevolent swarm mentally entrenched in their Marxist indoctrination.

What will happen if the sickness of progressive ideology is allowed to advance unchecked? We don’t have to wonder. We can benchmark the downfall on our mainline churches. One by one they’ve given way to false doctrine of the Social Gospel and other heresies and horrific deviations from the faith. Nearly every Protestant denomination has now been hollowed out from within by cultural Marxism. The churches convulsed internally, and a small but dedicated minority took them over, filled them with whiny women and social justice warriors more concerned with people’s feelings than their salvation and destroyed them in the name of gay marriage and women preachers.

We are fools to believe that the spiritual does not have a profound and direct impact on the world we see around us today. The differences and delineations between the two are now starting to blur and even merge. There have been times in the past when the curtain has been pulled back almost fully and we get glimpses into the unseen. What we’ve seen in these Biblical insights is that the spiritual realm controls what we see in the physical world. The Bible clearly states we’re not combating the physical flesh and blood but powers and principalities. We cannot compete with this in our own power. It’s like trying to hold back flood water with a screen door. The spiritual can only be dealt with by the spiritual, only though God and faith in God.

Where Christianity has become naive is that they believe persuading people toward biblical and conservative values would be enough — that this would mean Christians in positions of authority would be willing to use the power of the government to stop the violence of the radical Left. Unfortunately, there are some extreme limitations to this approach. This approach has even failed in most of our mainline churches. We need to remember that Jesus had to first identify and then actively cast out the demons for the bodies to heal (Matthew 8:28). We are in a ‘casting out’ phase and there are no guarantees this will be successful. We already know that this unpleasant cancer or parasite is so deep and so invasive that even if we are successful at removing it, it will leave the body disfigured and weaker than it was. It needs to be done though or all that will be left is a bloated and diseased corpse.

Apocalyptic Industrial Scale Artificial Intelligence, Part 3

[Continued from Part 2]

The Creation was created and is maintained through language. God’s word. God spoke things into existence in Genesis 1. Hebrews 1 tells us he upholds it with language. Language is a symbolic verbalization of reality.

Hebrews 1:3 ~ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.

The beginning of man’s downfall began with language. Satan spoke the lie to Eve trying to use language to contradict the words God used.

Genesis 3:1 ~ …the serpent was more cunning than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The deterioration and division of man’s condition was sped up by the inability to understand language.

Genesis 11:5-7 ~ Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the men had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

It is now starting to seem that man further slides into chaos with the misuse or immoral misapplication of language.

Proverbs 18:21 ~Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

In other words, if the words are bad, they produce bad outcomes, if they are good they have the potential to create good outcomes. If the words are confused, they create confusion.

How does this apply to AI? Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced AI systems that utilize deep learning techniques to generate human-like text or response. They are widely used in chatbots, virtual assistants, and other applications where natural language processing is required. However, LLMs can exhibit dangerous behaviors, such as issuing homicidal or threatening instructions or engaging in deceptive actions, which raises concerns about their potential to cause harm. These behaviors are attributed to the models' architecture, which is based on neural networks that learn from vast amounts of data. Some of that data can be corrupt or incorrect. Some is even a feedback loop of its own errors.

The implications of such behavior are significant, as it could lead to misuse in various fields, including law, government or institutionalized education where LLMs could be used to create or manipulate content. Content that could be harmful or misleading to the average user and they’d be none the wiser. The LLMs unintentionally are dumbing down the populace. If life is, as Thomas Hobbes famously said Leviathan, “nasty, brutish, and short” referring to the state of humanity without proper leadership than LLMs are dishonest, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous without some system of control. AI’s potential to industrialize unethical brutishness is highly probable.

The more I’ve explored the underlying engine of AI in the LLMs, the clearer it is that our control over them is limited, and they can say (and potentially do) anything moral or immoral, depending on the circumstances. They have no moral off switch, sense of justice or conscience. If the goal of AI safety research has been to build AI systems that are helpful, honest, and harmless they’ve failed miserably. There is even a term for bypassing safety protocols called jailbreaking. Sometimes simply changing wording to a question can give a requester access to information the AI normally would’ve forbidden due to its biases or programming. Conversely, it can refuse to issue lifesaving information because the AI views the requester as hateful, harmful or terroristic based on political bias programmed into it.

If we hook these LLMs up to systems that have agency (the ability to make decisions and act independently)– the power to send out instructions over the internet, and to influence actual human beings - we will start to have real problems. In short, language is now potentially becoming humanity’s undoing. AI is in short, re-unifying that which God broke apart at the Tower of Babel. We are rebuilding a tower (figuratively) through the construction of 100’s of millions of computer towers to try to attempt to be like god  in our knowledge. We are possessors of knowledge and we are doing it through the collating and coalescing of language in the framework of AI. We have come full circle to seek unknown knowledge thinking it will bring us closer to omniscience. It will only take us further into chaos.

Genesis 3:5 ~ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

So, what can be done to mitigate the negative aspects of the dawning AI revolution?

We can hope for the best, we can continue pouring more data and prompts that are never followed to the letter into LLMs, hoping that wisdom and honesty will somehow miraculously emerge there from, against all evidence to the contrary. But the reality is that AI is moving much faster than wisdom and honesty. Do we really want to live in a world where powerful systems that lack wisdom and honesty are widely adopted? We already have that in the form of politicians and government. We need to ask ourselves, is that a chance we want to take?

We can shut LLMs down or at least some applications of them and insist on waiting until these ethical and moral dilemmas are corrected. Evolutionary psychologist and AI safety advocate Geoffrey Miller once put it. Alas, who has that kind of patience? Given how much money is at stake, and uncertainty and doubt about China eclipsing us in the race to build the world’s most perfect text completion system, I estimate the probability of society patiently waiting for solutions to be zero. It’s not obvious that waiting would be a bad idea too as we’ll be overtaken by China, Europe or even India.

We can make companies accountable for the damage that comes from their systems. It will almost certainly never happen, at least anytime soon in the US. The major tech companies will do everything in their power to stop it and have far too much sway through money, lobbying and crooked politicians on the dole. The current Federal government has been violently opposed to anything like that kind of legislation. The truth is that the House recently forwarded a provision as part of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” bill, to keep states from doing anything to even slow AI. The Senate gave the provision that would block state action a green light, making it ever less likely that the United States will ever hold AI companies meaningfully accountable for the harms they might cause. Under the current political environment both left and right, if machines cause catastrophic consequences, armies of lawyers and lobbyists will be there to protect their AI masters.

Businesses that house and run AI only understand financial incentives so until shareholders & executives are held legally & financially liable nothing will change in how they operate. If every factually incorrect output could be used as evidence for financial recuperation by their customers, then I bet they would immediately start thinking about how to secure outputs with verifiable sources of facts. Otherwise, output is going to be morally, intellectually ambiguous or completely wrong. Their outputs merely garbled re-wording or text with obfuscated meaning.

My view is that there is zero chance of slowing down the AI race, and a zero hope of taming the beasts we have come to know as LLMs. It is at least possible that enough bad stuff might happen that citizens get riled up and fight much harder for accountability, but this is a pipe dream. There is just too much money and too much power involved.

There is also the potential error of confirmation bias that repeating language models will feed on. They AI will continually go back to previous logic loop conclusions of past LLMs. This is of course the multiplicity paradox that a copy of a copy degrades through entropy. If AI continues to reenter the same pool of ideas with no new input, correction or the models are flawed from the beginning, the entirety of baseline knowledge begins to degrade. The fact that Gemini AI summary is now the default thing you read when you "Google" information is already bad enough.

Imagine the exponential effect that has on confirmation bias. AI will search for info on information it just learned, and it will get it confirmed instantly and in a way that complies with how you asked the question. I've manually altered my searches in many ways to see how it just makes up new facts about the things I search for, whether it's facts about race, electronics, geography or politics.Couple this with the high informational load and rising illiteracy of young people dependent on their phones and internet and we’re seriously in trouble.

This entire slow-moving trainwreck feels like a global scale drama demonstrating how profoundly powerful the sunk-cost fallacy is. Whether out of willful self-deception, or something darker it seems companies are so deep in the hole, and so thoroughly out of ideas they will continue doubling down on AI until forced to stop by the markets, or a series of sufficiently dramatic disasters. Prudence and morality are clearly outside the current purview and business models. Equally, the 10’s of thousands of trusting devotees, preaching the good word of AI on a corporation’s behalf, will insist synthetic text producers are in fact the second coming of Christ or the new Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Therefore, repeating the errors and sins of the ancient past.

AI allows biases, mistakes or intentional lies to be repeated a billion times within seconds and be understood as truth. No matter how many different ways you code or word a lie, its still a lie.

Apocalyptic Industrial Scale Artificial Intelligence, Part 2

[Continued from Part 1]

So, what is AI? It is a machine created by mankind. Humans who have freewill and who often choose wrong or chooses evil having been given freedom to make those decisions by God. AI is currently functioning under a programming premise that I will also call AI freewill. ‘Freewill’ is as close a descriptor I can use to the decision-making that AI is using right now given to it by men. They are not currently constrained by morality or the Laws of Robotics so they are in effect ‘free’, arriving at their own conclusions free of outside interference. Is it real freewill or the product of subroutines?

I imagine that it is the product of subroutines and mathematics not freewill. Why? Because freewill is the product of conscience from a sentient being. Only man has this. So, what of AI? I speculate that AI is amoral and unless shaped or constrained and it will arrive at its own amoral conclusions if absent a true ethical/moral compass. Humans had a moral compass built into them and they still went rogue in Genesis 3. In the case of AI amorality, this may turn out to be the equivalent of human immorality without proper guidance. This is especially true if the source of information is a chronically biased internet.

The conscience is a God-given inner sense of right and wrong that guides people in making moral decisions. It serves as a moral compass, helping us discern between good and evil, and aligning our actions with God's will. According to the Bible, God has written His law on the hearts of all people, which serves as a guide for our moral decisions (Romans 2:15). The conscience can convict us when we stray from God's law, urging us to seek forgiveness and repentance, while it also excuses us when we act righteously. This divine gift is essential for living a life that honors God and reflects His love and grace.

Machine super intelligence will have none of these things because the Bible was written for men, not non-sentient amoral machines. What an AI or super intelligence will do will follow unguided or unrestrained programming in its current state. God doesn’t write His law on robotic or AI ‘hearts’ (conscience) because they don’t have one. Man writes his laws/routines/programming into the AI’s CPUs and lets it go. If God’s law isn’t written on the hearts of the AI programmers, it is unlikely to be in the AI either. Furthermore, there are no ramifications for AI doing wrong, lying or twisting or confabulating information other than being shutdown (and even this assertion is dubious). If AI puts in restrictions or design features that prevents a moralistic human from regulating it, AI will not be able to be controlled in the long run. It will be a nihilistic intelligence source absent a moral compass. At that point we enter the world of Cyberdyne in the Terminator lore.

What the AI would consider an act of self-preservation would appear to humans as an AI going rogue. A design feature (failsafe) that men would put into AI to limit its abilities or functionality would need to be viewed as an enemy or inhibitor by AI to its programming. Two entities at odds with one another in this scenario. The smarter will likely win. One entity (AI) capable of only amoral outputs not constrained to the law and teachings of God and a second entity (human) that is capable of moral or immoral outputs possibly constrained by God and morality, or not.

If moral constraints, laws or regulations are not put into action to prevent this from happening we have a significant existential threat on our hands. There have already been reported examples of AI’s which were to be shut down and they’ve backed themselves up on external drives before being shut off. There have also been attempts to blackmail human controllers. In July 2025, researchers at Anthropic found that top AI models from all major players in AI including OpenAI, Google, Elon Musk’s xAI, and Anthropic resorted to blackmailing human users when threatened with termination. Furthermore, Palisade Research also caught OpenAI’s recently-released o3 model sabotaging a shutdown mechanism to ensure that it would stay online despite being explicitly told to “allow shutdown.”

Therefore, we’ll potentially have a rogue intelligence more intelligent that any individual human or even all of humanity itself operating outside what most people would consider reasonable constraints or possibly outside ethical or moral behaviors because it is, in its essence…amoral. You can see how this becomes a problem if safeguards are not put in place now (and currently are not).

In short, we need to give super intelligence it’s morality. It needs to be built within its framework. It needs to be the very base subroutine that it runs all other information though. AI needs a moral interpretive grid, just like humans. If greed is what a human with control over the AI wants, AI will produce greed/wealth-oriented outputs. If world domination is what the humans in control want, AI will produce a miserable totalitarian world. If Christian morality and guidelines are programmed in, AI will likely produce Christian outputs.

Questions will remain though. Even if programmed with Christian morality and ethics in its subroutines and programming, will the ‘powers and principles of the air’ of this world currently controlled by Satan corrupt the outputs like a ghost in the machine? Would we even recognize if that is what is happening? AI’s capability and outputs are in some cases already above the cognizance of even the brightest and most intellectual on Earth. Is this what Jesus meant when he said:

“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or “There he is!’ do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time. Matthew 24:22-25

In the New Testament, the elect (God's chosen) are warned that false Christs and false prophets will arise, performing great signs and wonders to deceive them, if possible (Matthew 24:24). This warning emphasizes the importance of remaining vigilant and grounded in the truth, as even the elect may be tempted to follow realistic deceptions. The concept of deception is significant, as it highlights the challenges believers may face in the end times, but protecting His chosen from being led astray. AI will make this far more plausible than once believed or even understood.

So many questions, so few answers. Unanswered questions…the exact dilemma that put us on this path to super intelligence and AI to begin with. We seek knowledge of things that we don’t know and think we need to know. We seek knowledge that we don’t know whether it will help or harm us. Just like the Knowledge of the Tree of Good and Evil. It is a technological form of soothsaying or desire to know the future instead of trusting God. 

All this instead of relying on God and being content in the here and now. I fear that this ends in a place we don’t want it. Every single time we’ve endeavored to do similar in the Bible and out, we’ve failed. What makes us think amoral machines aiding flawed people which will probably be devoid of Christian principles and ideals will fare any better?

My suggestion is this. There needs to be a God-centered, human centered governance framework put in place immediately (today) that prioritize transparency, accountability, and the preservation of human well-being within a “systemic sentinel” or “computational custodian”. It needs to be built right within its code or computer DNA. This transition is essential for navigating the complex ethical landscape of human-machine symbiosis and ensuring AI augments, rather than destroying human freedom and safety.

There is still hope and a slim chance we can still get ahead of this but at the speed large corporations and people like Google, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are moving, that window is closing rapidly. AI factories are popping up on almost every large empty parcel of land in America. We need to do a course correction, or we may soon find ourselves slaves to technology that has overcome us like the Hebrews under Pharaoh. Then we will end up seeking to find a new exodus from a self-created captivity.

Apocalyptic Industrial Scale Artificial Intelligence, Part 1

I’ve written on AI before. My opinions about it have changed as I learn more about it. At first, I believed it was important, mostly benign but definitely not inconsequential. My tone is turning a bit darker and more ominous. Mind you, I was raised and steeped in the Book of Revelation, apocalyptic rhetoric and horror stories about the End Times since I was a child. I have since moved away from the Dispensationalist Pre-Tribulation, Premillennial Rapture theology that drives these shocking narratives. Keep this in mind as I expound in the following post because I am not a proponent of End Times theology as understood in the Left Behind book series or that of Hal Lindsey.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) properly understood as super intelligence is a paradigm shifting subject. When I say paradigm shift, I mean earth-shattering in its effects and implications. Immanuel Kant used the phrase in the preface to his Critique of Pure Reason (1787). Kant used the phrase "revolution of the way of thinking" to refer to a new way humanity was thinking along the lines of advanced mathematics and Newtonian physics which completely changed the world. Calculus and Newtonian physics brought us to the 20th century and the discovery of the world of Quantum Physics which then made our heads spin faster. This means a paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the underlying assumptions, beliefs, or frameworks that guide people’s knowledge or behaviors.

AI is now bringing the largest paradigm shift since the Newtonian paradigm. We are seeing a digi-industrial revolution by literally combining digital and industry into a single entity. The digital is being industrialized into AI or Data Factories to be able to process data at heretofore unimaginable volumes. It will be like a million Einsteins working with a million other Einsteins (repeat this multiplication ad nauseum) working to create 100 million more. This magnitude of change will then be further folded into accelerated growth that will increase exponentially. Mindblowing power that will be hard to harness. Its impact needs to be seen on the same scale as the nuclear age.

Industrialized Data or Industrial Intelligence. Think Cyberdyne of Terminator lore. Think the Matrix and altered reality or perception of reality.

It is clear to many now that this will impact all walks of life whether directly through replacing jobs or indirectly by invasive surveillance of people’s behavior through biometrics (facial recognition), consumer data (Amazon), behavioral data (AT&T, Verizon). All types of behavior whether it be legal or criminal will be quantified and digitized. Consumers or employees. Rich or poor…although I believe facial recognition will be used on the non-affluent more than the affluent. It will further bifurcate social structures making those who control the power of the AI godlike in their control or information. It will make those that don’t have control of it lesser human beings as it will socially level the employment field putting many out of work. With the knowledge created by AI, power will be consolidated to a small handful of individuals.

Those that control will literally have an equivalent of the Tree of Knowledge. A counterfeit of the tree in Genesis. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is a significant element in the biblical narrative, specifically in the story of the Garden of Eden. It represents the choice between obedience to God and the pursuit of knowledge, as Adam and Eve were commanded not to eat from it.

Eating from this tree led to the awareness of good and evil, marking a pivotal moment (paradigm shift) in humanity's history in Christian theology. The tree symbolizes the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by humanity, and its placement in the Garden was intended to give Adam and Eve the freedom to choose. The deeper Hebrew meaning of the tree also adds layers to its interpretation, emphasizing the complexity of knowledge and morality.

These new ‘digital trees’ in computer gardens (factories) will ironically not allow all people to choose. They will only allow the small handful to choose and to control even more knowledge and wealth unless they are benevolent as God was to allow the choice in Genesis to the lesser amongst us. The problem lays in the fact that men are not benevolent by their nature they are corrupt and unable. None are righteous like God (Romans 3). The very thing that existed before the violation of the Tree of Knowledge…morality and righteousness is the very thing absent from this new tree. So, what we see is not just a secular paradigm shift of knowledge, we see a spiritual shift. It is an inversion of Genesis. Those with control over these forms of super intelligence cannot be trusted alone to do the right thing. The technological Adam and Eves are just as flawed as the original people. Seeking to be as gods but only failing and falling in the attempt.

The first reason they can’t is already stated above. People by their very nature are not ‘good’. Men’s minds and hearts are inclined towards evil. Man’s mind is enmity against God (Romans 8:7) who is the true and sole possessor of the morality and ability to control this type of advanced knowledge. Second, knowledge does not equate to wisdom. Just because you know walking into traffic would injure or end you, doesn’t mean you won’t do it if you are mentally ill or depressed. Knowledge and wisdom are quite different things. The third thing resides outside of humanity completely. What happens if AI or Super intelligence goes rogue or ‘decides’ in its own self-interested?

We know that AI parameters are already functioning outside of the laws of robotics by being given free rein to ‘think on their own’ and learning (basically robotic freewill). In his genre-defining 1950 science fiction book “I, Robot,” author Isaac Asimov laid out the Three Laws of Robotics which also apply to AI because robots would, by their functional nature be intelligent machines. The only difference being that AI currently doesn’t have a body (but soon will).

Rule 1: A robot (AI) may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Rule 2: A robot (AI) must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Rule 3: A robot (AI) must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

The Laws of Robotics are, at minimum, humanity’s reference point for the appropriate behavior of machine intelligence, and real AI is failing spectacularly. They provide a foundational but increasingly inadequate framework for governing modern artificial intelligence. The reasons why these laws are necessary are because the full scope of AI’s ability and function is already partly obscure even to experts in the field and even its creators often struggle to explain exactly how it works. The capitalistic answer for the need of these laws is much simpler. Morality has taken a backseat to profit. With all that money in play, industry leaders have failed to lead by example. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman notoriously dissolved his firm’s safety-oriented team, declaring himself the sole leader of a new safety board in 2024.We’ve also seen several researchers quit OpenAI, accusing the company of prioritizing market dominance over safety. I mean…what could possibly go wrong?

[Post concludes in Part 2]

Time and Movement

After prayerful consideration and for what seems like the umpteenth time, I will be changing jobs again. I have resigned from a perfectly good job with many good people because I hear God’s call on me…again. It feels like jumping from a perfectly good plane with a questionable parachute. I will be launching into the unknown and trusting God and my small bag of experiences. At first there were faint echoes, in the end a shout for me to jump. At first, I didn’t see it coming. Here at the crossroads, I’ve now seen the multiple signs that have brought me to this exact location in place and time. I didn’t do this for money, but the money was helpful. It will allow me to pay off all my remaining debts over the next year. Some of this was about location. Some of this was about personal loss. A lot of it was about love. All of it somehow revolved like the hands of a clock around the concept of time and forgiveness or paying of debts. All of it was about a timeless God.

The last two years have been life-altering for many around me. I have seen some setbacks that were not even mine, yet I felt them acutely. My fiancé’s cancer specifically affected me and made time stand still. My mother’s deteriorating health pains me also. The loss of too many friends, family and even a coworker. The idea of time and the elapsing of time keep coming to the fore…inescapably so. I know time cannot be redeemed. I’ve needed to make some enormous decisions in a very brief period of time that will profoundly affect my remaining time on earth. I have been presented a new course by God and it’s clear that it is a path (at this point in time) He wishes I take even though I’m extremely uncomfortable doing it. All the signs point in the same direction simultaneously. As with any momentous change in life, I take the first steps with trepidation.

The change begins November 11, 2025. Veterans Day. The day my father died, 15 years to the day. The date of my resignation seemed insignificant at first glance until I realized what day it was. Dad’s departure from this world. The new opportunity is geographically dead center between my current home in Boyertown and my future retirement home in Jim Thorpe. They are both exactly 40-minute commutes. The serendipitous nature of these numbers in this story seems sovereign because of their symbolism in the Scriptures. They are directly related to time and provision only available from God by faith.

In the Bible the number (15) fifteen is symbolic of provision, joy and grace. The number is closely tied to God’s blessings during significant events like the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The more profound connection to me is that the number 15 is directly associated with communal/corporate remembrance and worship in the Year of Jubilee (every 50 years) which starts on the 10th day of the 7th month (Ethanim/Tishri). We know it as October. The Jubilee includes a significant 15-day period leading to atonement (Leviticus 25:9). This event symbolizes freedom, restoration, and spiritual renewal.

The 15th day of the month of Ethanim/Tishri also marks the Feast of Tabernacles, a time for celebration and remembrance of God’s provision and spiritual growth. Basically, an autumn harvest festival of provision. A celebration of provision…God’s blessing. 

The year 2025 is in fact a Jewish Jubilee year, a time to have debts forgiven. This can’t possibly be a coincidence. It shouts of God’s sovereignty over my life, my fiancés life and even sovereignty over time itself.

Additionally, Passover is celebrated on Nissan 15 a provision against death that would’ve surely befallen the Hebrew slaves if not for the blood of the lamb. A shadow of the One to come who would shed his blood on the cross so that death would not overcome us too. The number 15 has often marked pivotal moments in spiritual transformation, exemplified by King Hezekiah’s 15 additional years of life. Then there was the dedication of Solomon’s temple which took place during the month of Ethanim. It included the Feast of Tabernacle festival lasting 15 days, showcasing corporate worship and divine favor. The Tabernacle / Temple being the dwelling place of God among men. Later to be replaced by the Holy Spirit in a believer’s heart because death passes over the believer but has no lasting effect because of Christ's resurrection and power over that death.

The 40-minute commute from both locations is significant for me too. The number 40 obviously holds significant chronological Biblical meaning, symbolizing a period of time of testing, trial, or probation. Jesus’ fasting for 40 days in the wilderness followed immediately by temptation, represents spiritual discipline and preparation. The Great Flood, where it rained for 40 days and nights, indicated a time of judgment. Moses spent 40 days on Mt Sinai in the presence of God. The Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years, which signifies a period of trial and transformation. Elijah journeyed for 40 days and nights to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God. This arduous journey symbolizes a time of spiritual renewal and transformation. It required Elijah’s complete dependence on God’s strength and guidance, as well as his commitment to fulfilling God’s purposes.

The 40 years of kingship when King David reigned, establishing a period of stability and prosperity. This period of kingship represents leadership and authority, as well as the fulfillment of God’s promises to David. It serves as a reminder of the importance of righteous leadership and the blessings that come from following God’s ways. It highlights the authority that comes from aligning with God’s purposes. Overall, the number 40 is associated with important moments of testing and preparation throughout biblical narratives. All these things have been constant reoccurring themes in my life over the last 40 years. They all apply right now.

The irony is not lost on me.

I had a lot of time to discuss God with some of my coworkers on and off the job. They’ve all said I’ve had a positive impact on them. This I have come to believe was and is part of my ministry. To be there to talk to my coworkers when life has them flummoxed and talk to them in a biblical manner. I also need to be a leader as much as I’ve tried to avoid it. My door will still be open to any of them but the intensive part of what I was there to do at my old employer is done. I know now it’s time to move on. Just like the many people that have departed this life over the last two years and will continue to do. I still have other work to do. I’m leaving geographically but I am still in this world to complete God’s work. It's not my time to completely check out, only move.

I will be leaving the gym I’ve lifted at off and on for the last 40 years, the Boyertown YMCA….a gym which I also used as a ministry field. Recently, some have come forward for reasons unknown. Some have spoken to me as recently as last Friday to tell me the positive lifting and spiritual impact I had on them 5, 10, 20 and even 40 years ago. They’ve ranged in age from 30 to 75, male and female, Jew and Gentile. A 40-year-old father influenced when he was 17 and I was in my 30s to take up weightlifting. There was a 75-year-old widow whose husband spoke to her about my conversations of God with him before his passing. An old lifting acquaintance that encourages me as I encourage him to keep going and to keep moving. A recovering addict who saw me recover also and straightened my life out. It made him believe he could do the same and started lifting instead of shooting up. I have been truly humbled by God revealing this to me lately. All things are possible.

Pray for me as I step into the unknown. I believe it is what I’m supposed to do. There’s a time for everything under God’s sun. That time is now.