AI Is Anti-Personal and Anti-Spiritual; As Such, It Can Offer No Real Positives

2/22/2026

Despite everything, some self-professed Christians continue to publicly laud the merits of AI, claiming it will make people smarter, more efficient, creative, and wealthy, provided it is utilized effectively with good underlying motivations.

Ridiculous hype and exaggerated claims aside, AI has revealed itself as the most anti-personal and anti-spiritual technology ever developed. As such, it is immune to “good underlying motivations” and cannot be utilized effectively for any good purpose.

Thus, the perceived positives AI appears to offer are head fakes; spiritual deceptions, through and through. Unfortunately, there’s not much that can be done for those who fail to recognize this.

At best, they will learn the hard way; at worst, they will convince themselves that AI has indeed made them smarter, more efficient, creative, wealthy, or whatever and embrace such fake positives as proof of their sagacity.

11 Comments

NLR

2/22/2026 20:50:06

What gets me is when people say that if one thing is wrecked, then other good things must inherently replace them. There are a lot of problems with education, but apparently students cheating with "AI" makes it better because wrecking education further will inevitably make something else appear!?

There are a lot of problems with publishing and science, but apparently allowing people to churn out more and more words will fix the problem!?

Well, if it's all so inevitable, then where are all these new good things that will replace the bad?

Many had the idea that as capability declined, less things would be produced. That is how it often used to be. But at present, it's the opposite: more and more junk is being produced. And apparently it's a civilizational imperative to produce fake junk on an industrial scale.

I don't know what will happen, but I know that a paradigm that is obviously false and destructive is not going to fix our problems.

Francis Berger

2/22/2026 21:26:55

@ NLR - Like you, I don't think AI fanboys grasp the level of destructiveness AI has unleashed on things like education, publishing, science, etc. All of those things were already corrupted, granted. However, AI will just exacerbate the corruption and destruction, not, as you note, make them better in any way.

bruce g charlton

2/23/2026 10:29:44

I think there is a great deal of "on the payroll" about "AI"-dolatry - people who are either compelled to use it and enthuse about it; or who are using it (and people) as a way of making money.

To engage in wild fantasies about what IRL are actually all invisible/ faked/ trivial benefits from "AI", means that such people avoid unpleasant cognitive dissonance, and the felt-necessity to repent.

A case of: "Because *I* do it - then it *must* be Good/ "cannot* be sinful !" - which is about as anti-Christian an attitude as is possible - it is denying and doubling-down on sin...

As if sinning isn't an inescapable part of the human condition from which we can Only be saved by acknowledging what we are doing is a sin, and that it is indeed evil - despite that we cannot (or will not) - as if Jesus had not said this over and again stop doing whatever-it-is.

This inescapability of sin ought to be obvious to any honest person - it was obvious to the Apostle Paul, for example.

Yet again I notice how (apparently) Easy Jesus made it for us to attain salvation - yet how most people Still will not do it!

2/23/2026 11:14:42

@ Bruce - What strikes me is the "AI is just a tool and a useful one at that" attitude that tends to be quite pervasive among those who pride themselves on their uber high IQs, knee-bending to Jesus, and all-around anti-Establishmentism.

The refusal to acknowledge sin and refusal to repent certainly underpins the attitude, but to advertise such intentional unacknowledgement and refusal to repent , regardless of how indirect it is, takes things to a whole other level, particularly when it involves something as blatantly bad as AI.

2/23/2026 14:15:25

But the motivations for "AI"-dolatry are very understandable, very ordinary and normal - and we see them everywhere.

I saw the same with "Evidence Based Medicine" from 1994 - it's a kind of "Saruman Syndrome", of switching to support what you regard as certain to be the winning side.

"If you can't beat them - join them."

And the unprecedented quantities money and resources being extracted from the productive economy, and redirected into the "AI" project - makes it a very tempting (almost irresistible) motivation to a certain type of person.

Some people very obviously have a horror of being regarded as a loser, of losing power/ status/ wealth; of being regarded as stupid for backing the wrong horse.

And of course it brings immediate, upfront worldly benefit to take the side of evil, and justify this to yourself and others by calling it good.

The only thing blocking the path of grabbing for a share of "AI" bounty, by joining the side of demonic strategic evil, is justifying this by self-deceptive and publicly dishonest arguments - and for some people that is not so much a barrier as a challenge.

2/23/2026 15:23:41

@ Bruce - Saruman Syndrome is a good way of putting it, and you're right, the motivations are very understandable. Something to be wary of in one's own day-to-day dealings.

2/24/2026 14:02:56

The motivations are understandable.

But it is disappointing that people who criticize faked accomplishments, fake money, bureaucracy, declining competence, megacorporations, the "global economy", economic practices which parasitize on productive work and other such things will just ignore all that when it comes to "AI".

Even though it is clear from the people pushing it, how it is being used, and what it is (a technology whose main purpose is to replace people) that it is just another part of the same thing.

They will also point out that some of those things had short to medium term benefits (at least for some people), but long-term disadvantages for the vast majority and yet ignore that when it comes to "AI".

2/24/2026 19:49:38

@ NLR - Yes, that is disappointing, but hardly surprising, I suppose. It strikes me that those who obsessively criticize the fakeness of the current elite often tend to do so from a sort of resentful attitude about not being among the elite themselves. What I mean is, they strive to be elite on their terms; however, that attitude all goes to seed the moment they embrace the tools and motivations of the elite they rail against so much.

Greg I.

2/24/2026 11:05:13

The rhetoric around "AI" is deeply unpleasant. AI boosters always seem to adopt this weird, arrogant, hectoring tone as if they’re proselytizing for a cult rather than describing a labor-saving technology. I find this fascinating because it echoes many of the rhetorical patterns that we saw during covid. In a private group for professionals in my field, someone posted: “Anyone who thinks they won't be affected by AI needs to learn more," without specifying what it is that we need to learn. The idea, presumably, is that the author is very smart because she figured out how to profit from AI while the rest of dummies will be left behind. Her comment was in response to a very hysterical, mega-viral article (written with AI assistance, naturally) claiming that AI is improving exponentially and will soon replace all knowledge workers. The article's answer to this threatening prospect? “Spend one hour a day experimenting with AI… If you do this for the next six months, you will understand what's coming better than 99% of the people around you.” Oh.

2/24/2026 19:52:59

@ Greg - Good comment.

"“Anyone who thinks they won't be affected by AI needs to learn more"

That reminds of something I once heard at a professional development seminar for teachers, "The aim of today's teachers is to prepare students for jobs that don't even exist yet."

When I asked how one could possibly prepare anyone for something that does not yet exist, I was informed that I really needed to think about it more deeply.

2/25/2026 09:07:34

"The aim of today's teachers is to prepare students for jobs that don't even exist yet."

The proper inference from that would be to cut-down education to a minimum of literacy and numeracy, and get people out into the work place ASAP to learn these new jobs...

Instead, the duration of formal education has been increased by six years (three more at school, and another three of "higher" education) for the upper half of the age cohort) since I was a kid.

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