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Volume 69, Number 4

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As developments in artificial intelligence change daily, we’re increasingly asking what makes humanity different from the machines we use. In this issue, Emily Belz introduces us to tech workers on the frontlines of AI development, Harvest Prude explains how algorithms affect Christian courtship, and Miroslav Volf writes on the transhumanist question. Several writers call our attention to the gifts of being human: Haejin and Makoto Fujimura point us to beauty and justice, Kelly Kapic reminds us God’s highest purpose isn’t efficiency, and Jen Pollock Michel writes on the effects of Alzheimer’s. We bring together futurists, theologians, artists, practitioners, and professors to consider how technology shapes us even as we use it.

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Essays

The Transhumanist Question

Is our being merely human something that ought to be overcome?

Unlearning the Gospel of Efficiency

Technology pulls us toward optimization, but God’s work in our lives takes a slower route.

Review

Racial Reconciliation Is on the Move

The gospel shouldn’t just change our hearts. At times, it should also change our addresses.

Still Life with the Fruit of the Spirit

To be human is to be a maker of beauty and a steward of justice.

Analysis

Rise of the Thinking Machines

The development of artificial intelligence explained by experts in the field.

God Remembers in Our Dementia

Alzheimer’s has robbed my mother of her memories. But in Christ, both she and I are not forgotten.

Review

When Pseudoscience Swallowed Scripture

In the heyday of eugenics, too many Christians lost their moral and theological bearings.

News

What Algorithms Have Brought Together

Christian singles aren’t going to church to find life partners. They’re swiping on the apps.

Review

We Want What the World Can’t Give

How Ecclesiastes diagnoses our doomed quests for happiness.

When We Make Intelligence in Our Image

From Genesis to generative models, human creativity can echo the Creator’s design.

Public Theology Project

An Image of God for an Era of AI

Our understanding of the imago Dei must be shaped by awe, mystery, and the person of Jesus Christ.

News

Meet the Christian Engineers Helping to Shape AI

These young tech workers are struggling to live out their faith as they navigate a high-stakes industry.

In Those Days, There Was No King Over AI

How should Christians engage with artificial intelligence when people are doing what is right in their own eyes?

What Is (Artificial) Intelligence?

Four experts weigh in on knowledge in the age of AI.

Don’t Conflate Intelligence with Value

Our obsession with AI’s capabilities misunderstands what intelligence actually is.

Why We’re Desperate to Measure Intelligence

Humans’ ability to reason is not the same as AI gathering information.

AI Offers Information. God Offers Wisdom.

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom model puts artificial intelligence in its proper place.

AI Is Making Humans Dumber

Mimicry is not the same as having intelligence, or as comprehending love and art.

Prologues

Seek the Kingdom Wherever It Is Found

A note from mission advancement in our July/August issue.

Qualms & Proverbs

Should Christians Avoid Writing with AI?

CT advice columnists also weigh in on a break from ministry and what to do about friends who are cohabitating.

Nicholas Carr on AI Doctors and Internet Edgelords

The author and tech journalist joined the Russell Moore Show to discuss what we stand to lose when we embrace artificial intelligence.

Testimony

Explosive Secrets Damaged Me. Surrendering to Jesus Saved Me.

A balcony view, a warehouse church, and the sweetness of the Word led me to the safe home of God’s love.

We’re Committed to Humans

A note from CT’s editorial director and art director for print in our July/August issue.

Backstories

News

Evangelical Report Says AI Needs Ethics

And other news from Christians around the globe.

Readers Say Yes to Church Kitchens

And other responses to our March/April issue.

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