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.

19 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.

Kate

3/7/2026 15:28:22

Ok, this is helpful. I have an anti-AI instinct but also see and feel deeply the incentives (perhaps temptations) to use it as I look for a job to support my children. I have a question that is in good faith that I hope you can answer - I hope it’s not just “you have to just see how evil it is for yourself.” Do you guys see any value in using ai for fairly neutral activities like coding or speeding up workflows by doing things like generating marketing landing pages? Isn’t it kind of like using a calculator in those cases? I do see the danger in using ai as a personal therapist, and I do see the overall degradation of work that it is leading to - copies of copies with more and more slop produced. It seems a bit like the Industrial Revolution - factories which produced far more output but at far lower quality of life for those forced to work in them. Sometimes it seems like everything in modern life is corrupt (the stock market, health system, education, etc) and it’s hard to see how to make a living in a clean and upright way.

3/8/2026 09:53:53

@ Kate - As far as I'm concerned, once an inherently evil technology is applied a "neutral activity" or a good activity, that activity ceases to be neutral or good (assuming it was neutral or good at all to begin with).

3/8/2026 10:09:01

@ Kate - "it’s hard to see how to make a living in a clean and upright way."

The nature of the world makes it virtually impossible to make a living in a clean and upright way despite our best motivations. And even when we do achieve some level of purity in this regard we can rest assured that the much of the work we do and the taxes we pay support and maintain an innately evil and corrupt System. We should not be overly concerned about trying to make a living sinlessly. We should, of course, do everything we can to be honest, upright, moral, ethical, loving, and well-motivated in our jobs, but we must realize that we will sin regardless, whether we want to or not. What we should be concerned about instead is recognizing the sins we commit in our jobs and elsewhere and sincerely repenting them (as opposed to justifying them or regarding them as good).

3/8/2026 10:10:30

My own view is that the technology itself is morally neutral. For example, I use an "AI" program to generate transcripts of business calls; without getting into specifics, this is extremely useful and saves me a great deal of time. I also use it for "artistic" or entertainment purposes, e.g. generating an image for a birthday card. Personally, I really don't see the harm in such uses. However, I refuse to outsource any of my writing, communication or creativity to AI, including even for "brainstorming" etc. That is where I draw the line, for what it's worth.

3/8/2026 17:34:30

@ Greg - Even a cursory examination of just who is developing, promoting, celebrating, lauding, marketing, and top-down "enforcing" the use of AI should be enough to inform us that AI is anything but a morally neutral technology.

Nayra

5/3/2026 03:12:40

Hello Francis, I keep coming back to your blog to check for any activity. It's been long since we've heard from you. I hope you're doing well.

5/3/2026 19:25:24

Hello Nayra. Thanks. I appreciate the inquiry. I'm doing well, and I hope to start blogging again real soon.

David Earle

5/6/2026 11:57:52

Good to hear as i was also curious

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