A few years ago, most faith-and-tech conversations were about screens. Social media was wrecking attention. Smartphones made silence harder to find. Online life was changing prayer, friendship and church in ways people could feel even if they couldn’t quite explain them.
AI has pushed that conversation somewhere else.
People aren’t just being distracted by technology now. They’re confiding in it. They’re asking it to explain Revelation, build Bible studies, summarize sermons and answer questions they don’t want to ask out loud. A tool that once felt like software now feels strangely relational, and that shift is changing how people seek wisdom, how they process loneliness and how they understand what makes them human in the first place.
Drew Dickens, a Christian AI researcher who has spoken with RELEVANT about the spiritual implications of artificial intelligence, believes the Church is still underestimating what’s happening.
“It represents, I think on the level of electricity and Gutenberg, a fundamental shift, theological, philosophical shift in how we engage with God,” Dickens said.
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