AI and the Image of God: What Does it Mean to be Human? (with Stephen Driscoll)

What if the rise of AI is exposing a crisis that was already there?

That question lies at the heart of this episode with Stephen Driscoll. As AI becomes more capable, many people feel a growing sense of anxiety about what human beings are for. If our value rests on intelligence, creativity, or productivity, then AI will always seem to threaten our worth. But Stephen argues that this fear reveals a deeper problem: we were never meant to ground our identity in performance in the first place.

Stephen is a Christian ministry worker in Australia and the author of Made in Our Image: God, Artificial Intelligence and You. In our conversation, he turns to Genesis 1 and 2 to show that human dignity is not something we achieve but something we receive. We are made in the image of God, and that means no machine can take away what God has given.

Stephen joined me on Silicon Spiritualities to explore why AI is forcing fresh questions about identity, and why the Christian answer offers a surer foundation for human worth than any technological vision ever could.

Resources Mentioned:

• Made in Our Image by Stephen Driscoll 
• Dominion by Tom Holland 
• The Experience Machine by Robert Nozick 
• Your Brain on ChatGPT by MIT Media Lab

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