Something’s Been on My Mind
Something’s been on my mind this week and I wanted to share it with you.
I watched this conversation with an AI safety researcher — Dr. Roman Yampolskiy — who predicts that within a few years, most of us won’t be able to function without algorithmic guidance. Superintelligence replacing jobs, mediating truth, shaping ethics. The whole picture.
And my first thought wasn’t about robots or timelines. It was about Sunday morning.
Because what he’s describing — a system where someone else processes truth for you and hands you the clean version — we already built that.
We’ve been sitting in it for centuries. We called it church. We replaced darash (the hard, personal, sweaty work of seeking God in His Word) with a chair and a sermon.
We traded covenant responsibility for comfortable consumption.
AI doesn’t have to displace Scripture. We already did that when we decided Torah was optional and grace meant we didn’t have to do the work anymore.
I wrote something longer about this — how the algorithm becomes a priest, how “alignment” is golden calf methodology, how simulation theory is just Gnosticism in a lab coat, and why the real test coming for believers isn’t persecution but irrelevance.
I’d love for you to read it and tell me what you think:
👉 The Algorithm as Priest: How Superintelligence Builds a Religion Without a Temple
Hit reply when you’re done. I mean that. This isn’t a broadcast — it’s a conversation.
That’s how edah works.
Sergio
I have the same reaction, thoughts about using AI!
I don't know how appropriate this is, but in my experience AI had provided better conversation on theology than most other Christians I know, most of whom lack the Biblical literacy I need for certain topics.
Now I know AI tends to be affirming whatever framework you bring with you so that could serve as an echo chamber. But rather than simply asking what a verse mean and accept whatever response it spits out, I usually direct it to the thoughts I've been building on my own to get a clearer articulation of the ideas and see how it can be developed further from there.