Can a Machine Convert You?

Luke and Gomer are back after a recording break, and Luke opens by admitting he left the gas running for fifteen minutes. Gomer has been using AI to research female reproductive health ahead of an NFP episode, and Luke is not having it. The argument ends up on whether a Catholic AI app can actually bring someone into the Church, and Gomer lands somewhere Luke didn’t expect. In This Episode: How researchers are using AI to dig through thousands of studies that never reach the top journals, and the wheat-allergy drug trial it turned up for Gomer’s daughter that none of her allergists had mentioned Why Marshall McLuhan said a new medium changes people regardless of what’s on it, and what that means for parents who hand a kid a screen to calm them down Gomer’s three weeks of AI brain fog, and the daily handwriting habit that got him out Luke calls AI-generated church art borderline sinful Gomer argues that a video series or an app can deliver content, but conversion needs the local parish Resources Mentioned: That Man Is You (Paradisus Dei): https://paradisusdei.org/for-men Catching Foxes on Substack: https://catchingfoxes.substack.com/ Inter Mirifica: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_04121963_inter-mirifica_en.html Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-postman-neil/9780143036531 The Art of Manliness: The New Dark Ages with James Marriott: https://www.artofmanliness.com/culture/books/podcast-1139-the-new-dark-ages-the-death-of-reading-and-the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society/ Chapters: 00:00: Gas Leaks and Dreamlight Valley 04:47: Prepping for NFP With AI Research 06:49: AI and the Studies Nobody Reads 13:39: What Is AI Doing to Us? 15:31: Inter Mirifica and the Medium Is the Message 20:33: Handing Kids a Screen 26:29: Three Weeks of AI Brain Fog 32:47: AI Art in the Church 41:08: Can a Machine Convert Someone? 43:46: Content vs. Context 01:03:57: McLuhan’s Warning to Maritain 01:15:03: A Birthday Message for Jackie Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios: https://saintkolbestudios.com/ Support Catching Foxes