Top o’ the Mornin’ to Ya!
TLDR: Discover why AI is not intelligence but organized knowledge gathering, and why Kingdom Family Leaders must use it carefully while guarding against treating machine learning as wisdom. Learn the difference between knowledge collection and true intelligence that comes from God’s spiritual spark.
What?
“Dad, what does that word mean?” We were at dinner the other night talking about great things and decrepit things. Spencer looks up to me and goes “Dad, what does decrepit mean?” We explained that decrepit is the opposite of clean and functional. It’s broken down and falling apart.
It got me thinking about AI. AI is like this glorified term from science fiction back in the day. As a software engineer and developer, I look at ML and LLM – that’s what AI is. It’s just like Spencer grabbing the meaning of decrepit.
LLM is large language model. What that is, is like a child. It’s got all the words it’s ever heard, gathered, cataloged, connected to other words. ML is machine learning – the machine looking at how are all these words used? What’s the random order and what makes it not random? What makes it do something?
It’s not intelligence. It’s just knowledge, collection, and organization. One might argue that’s intelligence. But for me, intelligence is that spiritual spark, that wonder, that life, that creation of creating a large language model, of creating language and having language to share.
Remember when God was sick of our intelligence, our language coming together at the tower of Babel, and he confused all our languages? He split them up as people so that they couldn’t communicate with each other.
Keep that in mind when you use AI. One, you should use it. But use it carefully. Recognize it’s a large language model gathering all the language around. It’s so important that you train your AI, that you proof your AI, and make sure it’s giving you the results you’re looking for.
It’s not intelligence. It’s not aligned with our Lord. It is just gathering knowledge and sharing organized knowledge with you. So guard your heart, guard your mind. Don’t put anything out there that’s not real and not from you. Watch out for AI. It’s just words.
Why?
I share this because Kingdom Family Leaders are either avoiding AI completely out of fear or embracing it uncritically as “intelligence.” Both approaches miss the truth. AI is a powerful tool for organizing knowledge, but it’s not wisdom, not intelligence, and not aligned with God.
When we treat AI outputs as truth rather than organized probability, we abdicate our responsibility to guard our hearts and minds. When we share AI-generated content as if it’s from us, we’re being dishonest about its source. The tool is useful, but treating it as more than knowledge collection is dangerous.
Lesson
The distinction between knowledge and intelligence matters profoundly. AI is knowledge collection and organization – gathering words, analyzing patterns, predicting likely sequences. But intelligence is the spiritual spark, the wonder, the life that creates language itself rather than just organizing it.
Think of Spencer asking “What does decrepit mean?” He’s learning from gathered knowledge. But the intelligence that created the concept of “decrepit,” that understands brokenness versus wholeness – that’s human intelligence reflecting God’s image. AI can tell you how the word is used, but it doesn’t understand brokenness the way a human created in God’s image does.
The Tower of Babel principle reminds us that language itself is powerful. When humans unified language to build apart from God, He confused their languages to prevent that united rebellion…”we will be like gods.” Now AI is attempting to unify language understanding again through massive knowledge aggregation. This doesn’t mean AI is evil, but it does mean we must remain vigilant about its limitations and our dependence on God rather than machines.
Practical application: use AI but train it, proof it, verify its outputs. Don’t treat its responses as truth – treat them as organized probability based on patterns in data. Most importantly, don’t put out content that’s not real and not from you. If AI wrote it, say so. Your authenticity matters more than polished AI-generated content.
Apply
Identify one area where you’re using AI. This week, practice “proofing” its outputs rather than accepting them as truth. Ask yourself: Is this aligned with Kingdom values? Is this accurate? Would I claim this as my own thinking?
If you share AI-generated content, be honest about its source. Don’t present machine-organized knowledge as your own wisdom. Guard your heart and mind by remembering: it’s just words, not intelligence. It’s knowledge collection, not spiritual wisdom.
This is generated by AI and proofed by me based on my YouTube shorts/videos.
You be blessed!
