Over the past few years I’ve had many opportunities to speak on the subject of technology—a natural consequence of having written a book called The Next Story: Faith, Friends, Family, and the Digital World. I almost invariably end my speeches with a time of Q&A and one question I can always count on being asked is this: What’s next? I’ve spoken about the rise of digital technologies and the ways they’ve integrated themselves into almost every aspect of our lives, and people are naturally curious to know what the next great technological leap will be. My usual answer is very simple: “AI.”
AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is the subject of Jason Thacker’s new book The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Having read it, I think I can say that it makes a fitting follow-up to my own The Next Story. It would be easy to categorize both books as relevant largely to programmers, scientists, or people otherwise involved in technological fields, but in both cases they are actually written for any and every Christian. They are better categorized as “Christian living.” Where I discussed the dawn of the digital revolution and the fact
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