How Southern Baptists Are Grappling With Artificial Intelligence

Contemporary Christianity does not have a reputation as a vanguard of technological sophistication, or even enthusiasm. Sure, many churches have embraced smartphones' abilities to spread their messages, for example. But Christian institutions are not often leading the big conversations about technology and culture. Traditional theist religions have "turned from a creative into a reactive force," as historian Yuval Noah Harari put it in his 2016 book, Homo Deus. "They now mostly agonize over the technologies, methods and ideas propagated by other movements."