So much of our world right now is filled with anxious questions around technology, especially around AI. The fear is understandable. New things unsettle us. They expose how little control we actually have.
I work around some crazy smart computer scientists and engineers, one of which is Dean Nakhleh, who has me thinking that there is a deeper invitation beyond if AI is good or bad. There is a more honest and more revealing question: What am I doing with this thing and what is it doing to me?
We forget sometimes that God can be found in all things. Not just the beautiful or the ancient or the obviously sacred, but in the ordinary tools we use every day. The question is never simply about the tool itself. It’s about the posture of the heart that uses it. A hammer can build a home or break a window. A word can heal or wound. A technology can isolate or connect, distort or illuminate. The tool reveals us.
Fear-based thinking keeps us focused on the wrong layer. It asks, “Is this safe?” when the more transformative question is, “Does this draw me toward love, toward truth, toward God?” If it does, then even something unfamiliar can become a place of grace. If it doesn’t, then even something familiar can become a place of distortion.
Maybe today, instead of reacting from fear, simply pause and notice your own interior movement. Ask yourself:
What is this shaping in me?
Is it helping me become more human, more free, more rooted in God?
That question alone can open the door back to discernment in all things and to the God who meets us everywhere even here.
Smitten With Goodness 