This article is reprinted in two parts from Doug Smith’s blog, That Doug Smith (October 12, 2025). This is the second part. The first part is here. Last Sunday, I was looking at the claims made for the use of gen AI chatbots in Christian ministry by Pat Gelsinger. He is the former CEO of Intel and head of technology at faith-forward AI startup Gloo. It seems to me that everything Gelsinger says serves the agenda of his company, Gloo. They’re the sponsor, and they want to sell their GenAI chatbots to ministries around the world. He must inspire his customers to believe the tool trope (AI is just another tool) so they’ll buy what he’s selling. Gelsinger sounds like software pioneer Marc Andreessen and other Big Tech luminaries as he describes educating every child on the planet, presumably by giving them all internet access so they can use (his) AI. He forgets that Big Tech elites send their kids to tech-free schools, and that we’re already seeing how harmful GenAI is to education because of epidemic levels of …

This article is reprinted in two parts with the permission of author Doug Smith from his blog That Doug Smith(October 12, 2025) Smith is the author of [Un]Intentional: How Screens Secretly Shape Your Desires, and How You Can Break Free. This is the first of two parts. As Christians, we care about ultimate values. Love. Truth. Wisdom. All embodied in our Savior, Jesus Christ. But we don’t always agree on how we should express our ultimate values. We’re especially confused about whether to use Generative AI chatbots. Image Credit: jonathon – Adobe Stock What is the right Christian posture towards GenAI chatbots today? Are chatbots the way to satisfy our “hunger and thirst for righteousness?” Or are they more like a fast-food substitute, with the equivalent of addiction-forming chemicals that poison us while we can’t stop eating them? Should we “run right to [AI] and find ways … of shaping this technology as a force for good,” as Pat Gelsinger, former CEO of Intel and head of technology at faith-forward AI startup Gloo, recently urged? Or …