[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 wins. 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.
