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My name is Jeremy.
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I'm the pastor of Mountain View Church in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
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I am Canadian.
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Well, thank you, some Canadian fans, or at least one.
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This session is about AI, in case you didn't know.
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And right off the get-go, I want you to understand that I am not, I am not anti-AI.
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If you came here and thought, oh, this is going to be a session where the guy just hates on AI and hates on the robots stuff, that's not what you're gonna get.
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However, I do want to explain to you today, and hopefully at the end of today's session, you are gonna understand that you are on a hinge moment in history where you are going to face temptations that other generations haven't faced.
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And I understand that there's some pastors and preachers out there, uh, some pastors and preachers out there that are like AI is the devil, it's the Antichrist, it's Satan, it's it's demons, there's all this different stuff.
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And that is actually not a new thing.
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In history, uh the church and and Christians and often pastors and preachers have always had a history.
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There's always been some that every time there's a technological advance, the there's always uh a lot of fear mongering.
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So this happened with the printing press.
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Believe it or not, when the printing press first came first came out, there were those that were like, oh, it's the devil, it's a Satan's tool, it's it's evil.
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And the same thing with the telephone, same thing with the internet, and this is happening once again with AI.
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Now, it is different, it is uh moving faster, uh, this technology is moving faster than ever before.
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But with every single technological advance through history, there have absolutely been people who have used it for evil and wickedness.
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However, on the other end, there have been people who follow Jesus who have used technology to advance the gospel and to be used for good.
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And you, your generation is going to grow up where AI and eventually robotics is going to be a part of your life.
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And you're at a hinge moment where you can decide in this moment whether you will allow AI to be used to fake who you are, to cheat, to maybe steal, to generate stuff and versions of you.
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And you can choose in this moment that I that you could choose that I'm gonna be a synthetic version of myself, and I'm gonna show the world the fake me, and I'm gonna use AI every way I can to make my life easy.
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I'm gonna get lazy and dumb and fake.
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You can do that, you will be able to do that.
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There will be the majority in your generation probably will do that.
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Or this is a hinge moment where you can decide, no, I am going to be an authentic version of myself.
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That God created something special and unique in me, and and I'm not gonna get carried away in this moment, and I'm not gonna become a synthetic version, I'm not gonna become a fake version.
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But you guys can decide.
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And um, I'm suggesting you that in this hour, this hour may even be a hinge moment, and you're gonna be asked to write some things down.
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So hopefully you have a pen or you're sitting beside someone with a pen or a pencil, and you're gonna be asked to write down the answers to three important questions that may be hinge moments for you, and and this may be radically different of where your life goes from this moment, from this very hour.
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Extremely, extremely important uh this time period that you're in.
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Okay, so now I want to get some feedback from you guys, though.
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Uh tell me what you know about AI.
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I'm gonna take a few answers.
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I you I can't take all of them, but uh okay, hands up, go ahead.
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What do you know about AI?
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Um it can help you, okay, help you with spiritual answers, okay.
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Yeah?
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AI knows everything.
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AI knows everything.
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Wow, that's a big claim.
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Okay, what else do we know about AI?
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Go ahead.
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That my mom uses it too much.
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That your mom uses it too much.
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Is your mom in this room?
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Wow, mom just got outed.
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Okay.
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Uh yes.
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Yeah, society is is depending on it too much.
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It might not be helpful, yeah, in the future.
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Anything else?
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What else do you know?
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Go.
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It takes away jobs.
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It takes away jobs, or it could.
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It might.
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It might.
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We're gonna find out in the next few years for sure.
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Uh yes.
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AI is in Taco Bell?
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Like at the drive there.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Does it speak Spanish?
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Disappointed.
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Okay, give me something else.
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What else do you know about AI?
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Anyone in the back?
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Okay, go ahead.
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I know millennials use it for.
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Okay, millennials use it for work, and Gen Z use it for therapy.
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Wow.
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Okay, that just tells a story right there.
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Okay, go ahead.
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My dad uses it too much.
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Ah, your dad uses it too much.
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Interesting.
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Uh your dad's probably like me.
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He uses it about every hour.
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Everyone uses it too much.
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Everyone uses it too much.
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Your old teacher used to hate it?
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Does your new teacher love it?
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Is it the same teacher?
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No, okay.
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Alright, I want you to raise your hand if you used AI at all in the past month.
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Keep it up, nice and high?
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Raise your hand if you like AI.
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Okay, we got a few.
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Okay, out of those that say they like it, tell me why you like AI.
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Okay, uh, let's go here.
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Yep.
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What do you like about it?
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Yep, research.
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It's true.
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Yeah, research is a great way.
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Okay, go ahead.
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What do you like about it?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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You don't like when it takes people's heart, but art?
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Okay, at first I said heart.
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Like AI, the heartbreaker.
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That would not be good either.
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Okay, art.
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Okay, uh, let's go here and then there.
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It can help you with stuff, it can help you sort out problems.
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Okay, right here.
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AI can give you ideas on what to draw.
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Okay, one more here.
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She likes the videos that it makes.
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Okay, we'll go one more.
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Go.
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You use it for English homework.
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Is your teacher here?
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No.
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Okay, we got one more.
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Okay, this is the last one, and then we'll want to go to those who I want to go to AI haters after this, okay?
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Anyone?
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Wow, okay.
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Easier to talk to AI than real people.
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Hmm, that's an interesting statement.
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Okay, raise your hand if you hate or dislike AI.
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Raise your hand, nice and high.
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Be bold.
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Okay, we got some AI haters in the room.
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Okay, why do you not like AI?
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Tell me.
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Replaces human talent in the back there, blue shirt.
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It tells you what you want to hear.
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I'm gonna go back here, okay?
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Light blue shirt?
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You're stealing other people's stuff because it searches the internet for it.
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Okay, waving in the back.
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It yes, okay, yeah, it's create shortcuts.
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Okay, I'm gonna take three more randomly.
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Uh we're gonna go in the black shirt there.
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It's gonna take away jobs, probably.
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I'm gonna do two here.
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It'll end our earth.
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The robots will take over.
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Uh, last one, and then we're gonna move on.
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Go ahead.
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What do you like?
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Yeah, the data centers require massive amounts of water.
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Okay, so I want to move on.
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How many of you guys can spot an AI-generated uh photo or uh or video?
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Talk to me.
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Okay, so okay, raise hand if you believe you can do it.
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Okay, okay, hands down.
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Now, this is true.
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You guys are actually better at spotting AI images and videos better than anyone else currently on the planet, and it is because you have grown up being fooled.
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More than one-third of teens say they're all they've already been fooled by fake content online.
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2022 is when online images and videos became en masse on the internet, okay?
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So, for you guys were in 2026, so four years ago, you guys are in your formative years here in your like early or late teens, and so your brains are like sponges.
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And you guys have kind of you're in formative time where you're being fooled by stuff, and so you can look at an image or video better than my generation, better than grandparents, and you can see within seconds, you're like, nah, it's fake.
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And someone can show you their phone, and you're not even like really close to it, and you already there's like a twinge inside of you.
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And so what happens is your generation is better at spotting AI fakes than most adults, and you're definitely better than your grandparents.
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Okay?
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Now, most of you have had these moments where grandma or grandpa, you know, they've got a video, like, have you seen this video?
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And they're showing you, they're like, Look, look what this guy did, and you're and you're like, No, grandma, I love you, but that's fake.
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No, no, look, it's a video.
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He's really flying, he's got a helicopter attached to his head.
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It's real.
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It's a video.
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Look at it, watch the video, it's real.
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And you're trying to beg with grandma or grandpa.
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No, like that is fake.
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AI did it.
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What's an AI?
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What what do you mean?
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What do you?
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It's a real video, and and this is this is a real thing.
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Because in our generation, if you were in a court case or you were had to defend stuff, you needed to get video evidence.
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Photo or video evidence was what you were trying to acquire of, say, a crime committed or a happening, and then that could be submitted.
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You guys are gonna grow up in a world where photo and video evidence will be so scrutinized that based on opinion, you can say whether it's real or not.
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So imagine 30 years from now, you guys maybe are in a situation where you're called for jury duty or you're called to investigate something, maybe that's the you're gonna go into law enforcement, and people are gonna say that they have video evidence, and your automatic reaction is gonna be like, oh no, here we go.
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Because now you're gonna have to take it to some analysts and they're gonna have to break it apart to find out, and even if they do say, no, this is really video footage, half of the jury is gonna be like, I still don't believe it.
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Because you guys are gonna be bombarded with so much fake content, and it's gonna get better and better and better, and the AI is getting better at generating
it, where the thing that's gonna matter is real life.
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And so, if we talk about the court case situation, someone called to the to the stand who was there in real person, they touched it, they saw, they smelled, you know, they that that real experience is once again, it used to be before the tech.
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If we go back a hundred years ago, in a way, you we're we're like going back in time where the real experience is going to be more important than ever.
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And you're gonna get to the point where you're gonna go on a trip or something, and and maybe you're gonna have this unique experience, and you're gonna have to like convince your friends that you were really there and the video and photo is real.
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You might actually, they might get to the point where they like say, No, you just you just got the robot to design that, you didn't really do that.
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And so, real trips, real experiences, real hobbies, the things that you can touch and see with your own senses are gonna become more important in your time than they have been in a long time.
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And and so the only way, you know, we used to have this thing when I was a kid because we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have social media, and if if a friend missed out, he couldn't find where we were, we were, and we had this experience, and and and we had this saying was like, Man, you just had to be there.
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It's like tell me about it, or what was it?
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You just had to be there.
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Sorry you missed it.
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We said we were gonna meet, you know, at the 7-Eleven and you weren't there, so we just left.
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And you know, you left without me.
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What was it like?
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You guys are going to move into a time where even though you're saturated with content, you had to be there.
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You had to be there in person is gonna become more important than ever before.
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AI is gonna be able to write a song in your favorite artist's voice, it can write a poem that sounds exactly like you, it can write an essay on any topic in any style in about 30 seconds.
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So there will be a temptation for you guys to fake everything.
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Everything you do, everything you design.
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When you go write a story and you're and you're struggling with an ending, you are gonna be tempted to let AI write the end of your story.
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You're gonna be writing a poem or a song, and you're gonna get stumped on the chorus, and you're gonna be tempted to let AI just finish it for you.
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But I'm telling you, 30 years from now,
most people are gonna be doing that.
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But if you choose in this moment, no, I will not be synthetic.
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I am gonna write my own stuff, I'm going to design my own stuff, I'm gonna draw my own stuff, I am not gonna let the robot do it for me.
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You will be the anomaly when you when you're my age.
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The people who design stuff without AI intervention, that's gonna be like gold, that's gonna be like diamonds.
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But you gotta start practicing now because your cognitive ability, the more you let AI work for you, the less that cognitive ability is going is going to help you in the future.
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So you need to ask yourself, what will you show the world when you're my age?
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When you get to my age, will you have leaned on AI so much that your brain's just been saturated by it and you don't and you don't even know what's really you anymore?
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And will you just be synthetic or will you be authentic?
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That is the biggest question of the day.
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So why is this important?
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This is important because of who you are.
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You, each one of you were formed, you weren't generated by AI.
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And one of the key things that's different about you that the robots will never get is that you have a soul and a spirit.
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Okay, look at this verse.
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Psalm 139, 13, 14.
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It says, For you formed my inward parts, you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
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I praise you, for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made.
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Wonderful are you are your works, my soul knows it very well.
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They will get to a point in technology where probably at least, for sure, by the time you guys are 80, but probably more like by the time you're 40, robotics will catch up to the AI.
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The robotics will never be able to generate a soul.
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It'll never have a soul, it'll never be a spiritual being.
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That is something that human beings alone have because of how we were coded by God.
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So I want to talk to you about something called the Human Genome Project.
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So this was fully mapped out, about you know, uh about three billion pieces of code to every human being.
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Go back to Sex Ed 101.
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Look at all you, a bunch of you just were like, wait, what?
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Okay.
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Um, so uh we won't get into a lot of the details, but when when you moved from being a uh
a sperm and an egg and a little dance happened and you became your yourself as a little cell, there you are, you're very cute.
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Already in that moment, the three billion codecs of you, of who you are, were already in that cell.
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Your hair color, your eye color, your skin tone, how tall you're gonna be, even some of the things internally.
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Some of you are really good at working with your hands and you're and and you can see something and put it together easy.
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Uh others of you are able to picture things in your mind without even touching them.
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Uh others of you are able to write amazing things, stories, poetry, songs, and and it just kind of flows out of you.
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And yet others, it it takes a long time.
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All of that is part of your DNA code.
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And no matter how good the tech gets, maybe even, let's just say in a hundred years they get to the point where they're able to code out DNA and they can clone a human.
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Let's just go there.
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They're nowhere near it, but even let's say they could, it would just be a repeated process.
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Only God can do it in such a way where every single single cell is different.
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Everyone's individual.
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These are the types of scientific facts that that keep atheists up at night.
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Because it's it's impossible.
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It is impossible for some computer in the sky to be codecing three or three billion of these tiny DNA strands into a single cell, and that you form this totally independent person.
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And no one's like you in the entire world.
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No one looks like you, acts exactly like you, you're completely different.
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And that every single time, every single time a sperm and an egg meet and the cell comes, it's another new, brand new being.
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And in that being, part of that DNA code is a soul.
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You were created with a soul.
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And here's why that's the most unique and most important thing.
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And if the robots get to the point where they start being jealous, they'll be jealous of your soul.
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And they might be able to change out some parts and get an upgrade and maybe plug themselves into a wall to recharge.
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That's all they're gonna get.
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The only reason you get more than that is because your designer, your creator, created you with a soul, and your soul doesn't need the mind and body fully to exist.
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Your
mind, body, and soul.
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And as good as the tech gets, it might, it's mind and it might be body, a synthetic version, but it'll never, you can never synthesize a soul.
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And so that is so important.
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So in a world where everything is generated, you are formed as an individual.
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So now I want to talk about the real you.
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I want you to pull out uh that notebook, that fusion notebook, or if you have a journal with you and a pen or a pencil.
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I don't know if we have any more.
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There's a few kicking around here somewhere.
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Pass them around, maybe sit beside someone who has it.
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And I want you to answer this question, these two questions.
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What's one thing about you that can't be faked or generated?
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Answer that question, write it down.
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And then what has God created or designed just for you?
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Now let's talk about counterfeit connections.
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Believe it or not, this is kind of a creepy part of the show, but your generation is being tempted to have relationships with AI, both uh romantic, companionship, and spiritual.
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One in three teens right now have used an AI companion for social interaction or emotional support.
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So AI companionship has become the number one use of generative AI for many users.
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The reality is that AI, right now, there's companies making AI programs and apps that can be your friend, be your therapist, or be your boyfriend or your girlfriend.
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And what we're finding in colleges and universities, massive problems in colleges and universities.
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And if you and you guys gotta pay attention because you guys are gonna be moving in uh into this stage next, it's going in general.
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There's exceptions to the rule, but we have problems, uh very differing problems with the majority of women and the more majority of men in college and universities.
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Uh, to talk about the ladies first.
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So, uh, like she was saying, is there's apps that you know wants to be your AI boyfriend.
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Now, here's the problem with your AI boyfriend is he says the right thing, affirming, romantic, all the sweet nothings, 100% of the time, all the time.
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And that feels really great.
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In fact, your AI boyfriend is, you know, other than he's not human, he's perfect.
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But here's the bad news, ladies.
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Real guys aren't like that.
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I am going on 25 years of marriage, and first oh, thank you.
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And yet, and yet, and and yet, you know, been together with my wife for like 27.
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For some reason, I still can't say the right thing 100% of the time.
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An AI husband, right out of the gate, does better than me in everything he says.
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And so here's the problem on our college and university campuses right now with these gals, one and three, that are getting these AI boyfriends, is they're getting used to a robotic man that always affirms, always says the right thing all the time.
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And now you're forming an addiction to that, and you can't interact with real, real guys that sometimes say the wrong things and get nervous and get awkward, and that's actually real life.
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And if you talk to your parents, your grandparents, that's something that's existed throughout time.
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Is that the dating process and and that whole thing, it's supposed to be awkward, it's weird, it's hard, it's nerve-wracking, it's supposed to be.
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And you grow through it.
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Now, on the guy side, it's a it's an even more dangerous process right now because the pornography industry has integrated AI into it.
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So for guys on college and university campuses that are that have come in addicted to pornography, and now AI is a component of it, they are not only getting an a disgustingly inaccurate view of what women are, uh, the AI is acting in such a way that's that's forming terrible patterns inside of them.
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So now en masse, you have women with online with uh AI boyfriends that always say the right thing and uh according to what they want, and you have AI girlfriends with the guys that do anything they want.
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And you can imagine we're set over the next decade to have massive relational breakdown.
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And you guys are gonna be going into college campuses and university campuses where this foundation is already being laid, and you're gonna go in the dorm rooms, your parents are gonna be there, your youth pastors are not gonna be there, your youth leaders are not gonna be there to be like warning you saying, watch out, and there's gonna be temptation, and it's gonna be normal.
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What do you do if you're the only friend that doesn't have an online boyfriend or girlfriend or an AI boyfriend or girlfriend?
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What will you do?
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See, the decisions you make now are going to set the trajectory for your life, and it is extremely dangerous.
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And I would suggest to you when you get to the point where you're ready
to date a guy or date a gal and then move to kind of get engaged and get married, if it feels awkward, if it feels nerve-wracking, if it's embarrassing, if if you're full of anxiety, praise God.
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That's what it's supposed to be like.
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It's like that for everyone.
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That's how real relationships start.
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Awkward and embarrassing.
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But you grow through it and you get better for it.
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The AI will never give you the awkward or embarrassing, it'll always give you whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want it.
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And that's not real life.
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But now, here's where it gets worse is we actually have artificial spirituality.
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So 48% of practicing Christians, these are Christians that go to church every week, they'd say they'd trust an AI with their spiritual growth.
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For Gen Z, 39% of Gen Z say AI spiritual advice is just as trustworthy as their pastors.
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See, because it's difficult, it's difficult to ask a question to your youth pastor or your youth leader, or it's difficult to talk to a parent.
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Again, that awkwardness, the embarrassment.
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It's way easier to talk to the AI.
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And what happens is you're getting fake content.
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And maybe it'll answer your question, but there's nuances of how spirituality works and how it lives out in real life that the AI can't do.
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It can't feel things, smell, teach, taste, sight.
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It can't do any of that.
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It's simply robotic cerebral energy that it's trying to give to you.
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It won't be enough.
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And so no matter how good AI gets, it will never equate to a divine connection with God.
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Because here's the thing: God, right, the same God that knit all that wiring, that DNA code, he's like a good father.
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And a good dad sometimes says no.
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A good dad sometimes gives you boundaries.
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A good dad sometimes doesn't give you an answer right away and makes you wait.
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Sometimes a good dad wants you to figure it out on your own.
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That's how God is.
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And so you might pray, you go down on your knees, God, I really need an answer.
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And God stays silent on purpose.
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Because he loves you and he knows he wants you to wrestle with it.
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He wants you to wait.
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Maybe he does want to give you the answer, but he's like, oh, I'm looking down the timeline and I see what the AI can't see, and I need you to walk through this, and then the answer will come.
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But if you immediately, if you pray and it's like, oh, God didn't give me the answer, I'm gonna go ask ChatGPT and I'm gonna do what Chat says, you missed it.
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Chat doesn't love you like a good father.
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Claude doesn't love you like a good father.
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He's just gonna give you whatever you want, however you want, and you're gonna turn into a spoiled brat.
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Mentally, you'll turn into a spoiled brat that gets what they want, when they want, how they want it, whenever they want it.
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But that's not how spirituality works.
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God wants you to wrestle with it.
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He wants you to work with it because in the long term, when you become an adult, when you are in your 40s, you're gonna be a better version that you would have been.
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And if we keep going in this way, you're gonna be the minority.
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And there will be people, when you're in your 40s, and they'll be asking, Lou, how do you wrestle through this?
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How do you get through this?
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Well, I went to this conference called Fusion, and this guy said I shouldn't fully depend on the AI, so I stopped doing it.
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And here I am.
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And they're gonna say, Man, I wish I had done that when I was a teenager.
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I wish I hadn't become addicted to AI when I was a teenager.
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I would have been so much different.
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See, it's not a matter of not using AI.
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That's gonna be a part of your life.
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But every time you use it, make a decision, say, is this taking a part of me?
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Is it is it gonna take something from me?
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Because according to Paul's letter to Ephesians, we are his workmanship, God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
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So AI can give you a list of good deeds, good things to do, but you were created to do something special in this world.
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Maybe some of you in your teenage years are going to achieve that, but most of you it'll be in your adult years that there's something that God created in advance, again, when you were first formed, and there's something that you're supposed to do.
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There's a reason God put you on this planet in this time.
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And you could say, okay, why God?
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I'm in this hinge moment of like this massive technological revolution.
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Why am I here?
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And this is what you need to ask.
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This is what you need to write down next.
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What's one good work God is calling you to do in your life?
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What's the purpose and calling that God has prepared just for you?
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Now I want to talk about uh what Wes talked about last night.
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He's talking about the power of the Word of God, for the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit.
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There's those words again: soul and spirit, and joints in a marrow and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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Well, the Bible is the most trustworthy document.
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In 1946, in an area in the Middle East called the Caves of Qumran, they found what's called the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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And this was an amazing archaeological find.
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Uh one they found all sorts of, like just thousands of pieces of papyri or ancient writings of biblical texts.
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And one of them that they found was the book of Isaiah, a whole, a whole copy of Isaiah.
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Now, this copy that they found was 1,000 years older than the one they had previously.
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So they immediately started studying it and researching to find out whether it was different.
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Because the skeptics, some of the atheists at that time, were pushing back and they said, Oh, the one you have now, it's been changed, it's been edited.
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But they found that right around 95% of it was authentic from a thousand years of copying and copying and copying.
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There's and there's no data.
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This is like hand copying, looking at one with another guy looking over his shoulder and making sure that everything's fine.
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And and the other, the 5% were just either slips of the pen or like the writing style, the actual style of the hand, or uh word differences, how we spell words changed from a thousand years.
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And so for us, we don't say these and thou's uh like we used to do in in English.
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So these types of things.
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Well, in 2021, right, AI is going on the scene, and the skeptics and the atheists they came back and they're like, aha, the robot knows we're finally gonna find out that this Bible is fake, and we're gonna let the robot look at all the texts, and especially this one that we have from the
caves of Quran in Isaiah.
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And of course, uh, you know, the book of Isaiah, both to Jews, Muslims, and Christians, a very important text, and so they're like, okay, let's have at it.
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Well, AI confirmed in 2021 that it is the same, that it is authentic, and the words that were written of Isaiah at that time, thousands of years previously, are the same.
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They're legit.
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So, what this means, guys, is the answers that are gonna be generated will never stand the test of time compared to the word of God.
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Remember that AI can generate a thousand responses and still not know your heart.
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God's word is what's gonna reveal what's real.
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And so you're gonna have to, when you pray, don't just be like, oh, God didn't give me the answer, I'm out.
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Don't do that.
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You might have to actually work for it.
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And God has given his word, and it's it's real, it's alive.
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Forty different authors used by the Spirit to write 66 books in one giant book, thousands of years old, that have stood the test of time, that continues to be the bestseller, no matter how much technology goes, continues to be translated in every language possible, continued to be knit into apps, and continues to be one of the greatest sources of wisdom and knowledge that mankind has ever had.
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It's because God generated it.
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And so this is your last question for today.
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The real, real.
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What's one thing that God has revealed to you this week at Fusion?
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What's one thing that he's shown you?
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But here's the catch.
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How will you make that your new reality?
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How are you gonna act on that?
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There's one thing that God told you individually for you that that he's told you about yourself or something you're supposed to do, but how are you gonna use that what he's told you?
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Write down what he's revealed to you, and how are you gonna use it?
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And if you hear nothing else from this entire session, if you only hear one thing, please, please understand this that AI will never generate a soul.
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You might need to repeat that a million times over in your lifetime.
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And you're gonna be in boardroom meetings, you're gonna be in team meetings, you're gonna be designing things or working on things in your jobs.
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I'm sure AI will be integrated into all your careers.
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By the time you're my age, I'm sure of it.
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You might even have like robotic teammates at the table with you, but just remind them maybe his name's gonna be Jerry.
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Hey, Jerry, remember you don't have a soul, okay?
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Right?
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Jerry, remember if I don't plug you in, you're okay?
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Never forget this.
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If I if I meet you decades, decades from now, just say, hey, Pastor Jeremy, AI will never generate a soul and never have a soul.
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Remember that.
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You're an individual.
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So let me pray for you and then we'll go to questions.
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Let's pray.
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Dear Father, I thank you for these students.
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Father, I pray if there's anything beneficial that they needed to hear that uh you would solidify it in their minds.
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If there's anything not of value, then just strike that from the record.
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And uh, Father, uh protect them as they go on in their next stage here in high school, uh, eventually, and then into college, university, or in trades, or or work.
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And as AI is integrated into the workforce and into their lives, may they be careful.
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May they use it where it's beneficial, but may they uh may they not be robbed of their individuality, and may they not become synthetic versions of themselves.
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You have created an authenticity in each one of them.
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There's something unique about them.
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May they not lose themselves in this moment.
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Protect them, Father, in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Okay, questions.