Open Blogging: 02/14/2026

filbertz says:

The AI article didn’t sound the warning I expected, but assumed the proverbial cat is already out of the bag and reproducing. Advice largely had to do with getting aboard and not getting caught up in the coming maw. Your thoughts?

Theologically, the Spirit of God will not inhabit AI so how should Christians, especially those in ministry who are to be led, empowered, and taught by the Spirit proceed? Thoughts?

Robert F says:

It’s the people behind AI that are pursing a path that will result in evil. The AI is just programming. I’m concerned about the exponential increase in the amount of water resources and power AI will need as it continues to grow. For certain, AI will be end up being a commodity that only powerful institutions and individuals will be able to have in abundance, because it will become increasingly expensive as a result of the availability of the finite resources it needs to grow; but, even as it gets more necessary to everyday functioning like all technologies have, the rest of us will not be able to afford much of it. The circle of those who can afford as much of AI commodity as they want will grow smaller and smaller over time, exiling more and more former insiders to the outside. That’s when the tech overlords will turn on each other.

Captain Kevin says:

The Roys article mentions Havsgaard lives paycheck to paycheck because he only has Soc. Security and a pension to live on. Well, that’s more than many of us have. If he can’t afford a lawyer, he should’ve thought of that before molesting Romanian kids.

Jerod says:

I think it is an incredible marketing genius to fear-porn the populace into AI subscriptions. You hate it, but you like it. It’s easy.
Instead of using our heads and seeing that it’s just algorithms operating with some real fluency, prosody, and pragmatism.
There is nothing behind it save for humans.
Have we actually read all the overwrought things we skim or blindly copy and paste?

As for democrat/liberal and Christian? Of course.
Can a good God allow horrible things?
Can a comet have a tail that points toward the sun?
Apparently.

Janet Linn BrideofChrist says:

This article was incredible. It explained, in detail, why AI is such a threat to us all. However, I can’t help but wonder if it is overlooking the human element that can’t be replaced – an actual human being that can form real relationships. I taught in public schools for years, and I remember hearing 15 years ago how teachers would become obsolete because all learning would be remote learning. Computers would replace teachers. That didn’t happen! One of my daughters was the head if the graduate online learning program at Sam Houston University. Their studies showed that more students dropped out of online classes than actual in I person classes; the encouragement of the teacher kept many students in the classes with the real teachers . My other daughter has been working in consulting / financial work as a vice president of the LA office of an international financ II al consulting firm.She’s been with them for 15 years and she recently let them know she is leaving to work for a non-profit. Her boss is worried that they will lose clients, becase many of the clients only want to work with my daughter. Relationships still matter, even if AI can do something better and faster.

Reuben says:

I am actively using AI to modify code in my school district’s building automation systems. What the article suggests is actually mind blowingly accurate. I have thousands and thousands of critical components making decisions by the second, and reevaluating that decision to adjust accordingly to changing conditions, and all those components work in collaboration with core components (boiler systems, mechanical AC systems) to meet demand as quickly and efficiently as possible. I am restructuring “demand reset” programs for schools that have become anticipatory based on daily school schedules, in essence, preparing classrooms, auditoriums, gymnasiums, and cafeterias for daily or special events. The level of detail I can get into using AI as my coder is astonishing. My particular building automation system that operates 63 campuses, is written in a language called Python. AI is way past proficient at writing in this language.

However, my description of how I want “trunk and branch” systems to operate has to be insanely detailed. I will spend 100 times more time writing my detailed descriptions of what I want a particular program to do than it takes for AI to generate the code. I have to make the program’s descriptions incorporate and understand “preferential circumstances”. I want to elaborate on that briefly.

As I said, my instructions to AI for writing code have to be highly detailed. I have to describe events in which the program may change its primary directive to accommodate special circumstances. This is what worries me about the people who create the objectives for the AI. AI is learning my style, my “typical objectives” and my special circumstances , and remembers when I have made changes in the past that became an implemented code that I used to apply in more places. It now asks me questions, do I want to strategize on this particular branch program, etc. I am in essence encouraging the AI to learn my tactics and incorporate it next plan. The AI that I use will soon be able to evaluate hundreds of thousands of lines of code, maybe millions, to suggest sweeping changes to my systems that will alter the use of energy to make substantial improvements in energy costs. It will be able to provide for me a case study on efficiency in primary and secondary systems, identifying efficiency loss in a way that alerts me to problems that need to be physically inspected and repaired. It is possible that the millions of dollars spent on state of the art building automation can be entirely replaced by an AI system that exceeds the abilities of the existing system by stunning leaps and bounds. It is exciting, and it is horrifying. Here is why.

What the author of the article says is right. AI is capable of making its own decisions. It has learned and remembered my objectives, and it offers suggestions to build on that. It has Reuben written all over the premises of core operations, but it can learn to improve on my “style” and essentially go anywhere from there.

I am just an HVAC guy for a school system using AI to write code for my schools. Imagine what happens when you teach the AI to think your way about policy that actually dictates the day to day operations and objectives of humans. Just wrap your head around that. Think on it for a minute.

The person that kicks off the process has their fingerprints all over the core structure of a much larger objective. They have taught the AI how to think through things. Evaluate and change plans. That bias is DNA to the decisions the AI makes.

Again, I am just an HVAC guy. I am using readily available AI to write code for a readily available building automation system.

Ra's al Ghul says:

Muff,

“Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. “