What Does it Mean to Be Human? Artificial Intelligence

Technologies utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) are changing how people connect with each other both in positive and in unsettling ways. Advances in AI capacity and applications raise new questions about control and power, privacy, bias and discrimination, economic wellbeing, and our conception of what it means to be human. While it is crucial that we think through the moral ramifications and utilize it responsibly, we believe that AI presents the church and Christian ministries with a special chance to advance and better our work. In this article we will lay out how we believe the use of AI technology can enhance our Great Commission efforts and discuss how we can embrace it responsibly.

• Current State of AI
• Addressing Common Concerns
  AI does not pose an existential threat to humanity, but we must be aware of the concerning ways it is shaping our understandings of God, ourselves, and the world around us.
• Future State of AI
• Culture, Humanness, and the Plausibility of the Gospel
  Regardless of one’s capacities or attributes, they are a person by simply being a member of the human species.
• AI and the Great Commission—Opportunities and Challenges
  Wisdom would call us to slow down in an age of efficiency and convenience to examine how these technologies shape us as human beings, including how we understand God, ourselves, and the world around us.
• Aligning Our Expectations
• Stewarding Our Opportunities

For more information go to What Does it Mean to Be Human? Artificial Intelligence on the Lausanne Movement website.
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