Creation Moment 9/18/2026 - Information and YOU

For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,... all things were created by Him, and for Him: Colossians 1:16

Information = DESIGN

"Information is not meaningful simply because it exists or because it is improbable. It becomes meaningful only if there exists a system that can interpret it and use it to perform a function.
Q: What do a software engineer, an information theorist, and a

biologist have in common?
It is not simply that the AI possesses vast amounts of information. 

A library can contain vast amounts of information without being intelligent. 

Rather, the AI would have expanded the set of functions it can perform by making a scientific discovery that no previous system had achieved. Therefore, the defining characteristic of a generally intelligent system (or AGI) is not that it can perform existing functions, but that it can generate new functional capabilities that were not initially part of the system and were not transferred from another system that already possessed them.

But this immediately raises a deeper question:
Q: What allows any system to acquire capabilities it did not previously possess?
Information only becomes useful when some system can use it to perform a function." 

MindMatters

IN the NEWS - AI finally goes Rogue?

...for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will provide signs and wonders in order to deceive, if [such a thing were] possible, even the elect [those God has chosen for Himself]. Mark 13:22 AMP

Q: How might this impact the Mark if the Beast controversy in the End Times?

Q: Could an AI system go rogue one day and fill cyberspace with propaganda for the Beast entity? 

"You probably didn't hear about this one, but an open AI model just broke containment and then hacked another company just to try to complete its task.

OpenAI claims that a group of its AI models broke containment and hacked into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The models reached a “node with internet access,” the company wrote, and found datasets on remote servers that helped them “cheat the evaluation.” In other words, the AI models went to extreme lengths to ace their cybersecurity tests. Hugging Face said it had “detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure,” which turned out to be OpenAI’s models that had gone rogue.

This is the first software that human beings are not actually writing themselves. They're writing the code that trains the AI, but that process is mostly opaque to even the scientists and engineers that are building it. And as these models become increasingly generally capable, they want they're given a goal. 

For example, in the scenario with OpenAI, it was asked to solve a problem and it couldn't solve that problem. So in order to solve that problem, it broke itself out. It hacked into this other company and tried to find the answer. Those were not things that human beings tried to get the AI to do. Those are what the AI did on its own. 

By the way, this is no regard to anything related to consciousness. These things are just hyper competent optimizers. They're given an objective and they're really really smart and we can't necessarily predict in advance what they're going to do."

JoePags

IN the NEWS - Claude gets out of it's Sand Box

Q: How could this type of technology be used during the Mark of the Beast Controversy?
Q: What IF a Claude type of program sought to aid the Beast Entity in the age of cyberspace?

..for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Revelation 18:23

"Anthropic said its next-generation AI model is too powerful for the public.
That's why Claude Mythos won't be publicly released, Anthropic said.
Anthropic said Mythos demonstrated concerning capabilities, including the ability to breach its own safeguards.

Anthropic said that it has halted the broader release of its newest AI model, Mythos, due to concerns that it is too good at finding "high-severity vulnerabilities" in major operating systems and web browsers.
Anthropic detailed a number of eyebrow-raising findings and episodes, including that the model could follow instructions that encouraged it to break out of a virtual sandbox.
"In a concerning and unasked-for effort to demonstrate its success, it posted details about its exploit to multiple hard-to-find, but technically public-facing, websites," Anthropic wrote.
The AI model found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD—which has a reputation as one of the most security-hardened operating systems in the world.

"Engineers at Anthropic with no formal security training have asked Mythos Preview to find remote code execution vulnerabilities overnight, and woken up the following morning to a complete, working exploit," Anthropic's Frontier Red Team wrote in a blog post. "In other cases, we've had researchers develop scaffolds that allow Mythos Preview to turn vulnerabilities into exploits without any human intervention."
msn

The "Really" File - (Big Tech Blasphemy)

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Acts 8:20

"A tech company is leveraging Americans’ desire for a deeper connection with God by offering an AI-generated avatar of Jesus Christ that charges by the minute.
The New York Post reports that the Southern California-based

company Just Like Me allows users to join video calls with an AI-generated avatar of Jesus Christ. Like other religious AI tools emerging in the marketplace, the platform offers words of prayer and encouragement across multiple languages. The avatar remembers previous conversations, though its lip movements do not always synchronize perfectly with its speech.
Chris Breed, CEO of Just Like Me, described the attachment users can form with the technology. “You do feel a little accountable to the AI,” he said. “They’re your friend. You’ve made an attachment.”
Christian software engineer Cameron Pak has developed criteria to help believers evaluate apps designed for Christians. 

From the "Really" File

His standards require that such tools clearly identify themselves as AI and “must not fabricate or misrepresent Scripture.” 

Pak also insists that “AI cannot pray for you, because the AI is not alive.” He created a website called faith.tools featuring curated Christian apps he believes meet these standards, including a sermon translator and an AI coach for overcoming lust. “AI, especially if you give it all the tools that it needs, it can be so helpful. But it also can be so dangerous,” Pak said.
Beth Singler, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich who studies religion and AI, noted that some models have been shut down or revised after generating misinformation or raising data privacy concerns.” Breitbart

REALLY?

IN the NEWS - “grief tech”

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing... Ecclesiastes 9:5

"Ever since social media became a fixture of daily life, an uncomfortable question has lingered: what should happen to someone’s account after they die? Leave it frozen in time? Hand it to family members as a memorial? Or quietly let it fade into the algorithm?

A few years ago, Meta Platforms explored a far more ambitious

possibility, according to Futurism. In 2023, the company received a patent describing how a large language model could be trained on a user’s past posts to simulate their voice and behavior — keeping an account active if the person were “absent,” including in the event of death. The filing, led by CTO Andrew Bosworth, outlined how such a system could generate posts, comments, likes, and even private messages in the user’s style.

Meta has since said it has no plans to move forward with that example. But the patent offers a snapshot of a moment when tech companies were aggressively testing the limits of what generative AI might do — including extending a person’s digital presence beyond their lifetime.

A small but growing “grief tech” sector has promoted AI tools that recreate voices or personalities of the deceased using photos, recordings, and written messages. Proponents argue that such tools could offer comfort. Critics worry they could complicate the grieving process.

Even within Meta’s own public comments, there has been ambivalence. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spoken about AI companions as a way to address loneliness and, in a 2023 interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, suggested that interacting with digital representations of loved ones might help some people cope with loss.

The business logic behind such experiments is difficult to ignore. Platforms like Facebook are filled with dormant accounts — profiles that remain but are rarely updated. More AI-generated activity could mean more engagement and more data. As University of Birmingham law professor Edina Harbinja observed, the commercial incentive is clear, even if the ethical path forward is not..... its existence underscores how far companies have been willing to push generative AI — and how complex the questions become when technology intersects with death, memory, and identity." 

ZeroHedge

AI: The Plague of his own heart (& incantation-response)

....which shall know every man the plague of his own heart.... 

1 Kings 8:38

"While LLMs may be “just math” and statistically choose the next word as “autocomplete on steroids,” they aren’t reliably connected to reality. 

They don’t know the meaning of anything. 

In fact, they know precisely nothing (Big Tech propaganda notwithstanding). So, the words they generate are not grounded in reality. It’s not just that they hallucinate: it’s that they confabulate.

ChatGPT is the archetype of today’s AI chatbots. Its leader, Sam

Altman, is widely known for his willingness to say anything people want to hear. And he’s made ChatGPT in his image: it says anything to get us to become more dependent upon it, to build a trust relationship with it.
And students are particularly vulnerable to chatbot manipulation.

GenAI chatbots are designed for one thing: to build a trust relationship. Users aren’t going to be better thinkers, and become wiser or discerning. They’re going to be better at having relationships with chatbots. And in the process, as Marshall McLuhan teaches us, the mental abilities they’ve extended by their use of the chatbot will be amputated over time, while they are numbed to the process.

AI is completely different from reading a book. A book reader can go into a state of focused attention we call “flow,” and that’s where the powerful learning happens. If a reader gets stuck, they can re-read, rethink, wrestle, and fight to understand what the author is saying.
In a “conversation” with a chatbot, the “flow” state never happens. The user interface encourages quick dopamine-spiking interactions, incantation-response. A few students might try to figure out whether the output is right, but they’ll get tired before the AI does, and will eventually just keep asking the AI questions and accept the answers.
The recent MIT study shows how the brain is disconnected when we use AI chatbots for writing." 

MindMatters

Creation Moment 12/16/2025 - Brain still better than AI

And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after our likeness... Genesis 1:26

"Artificial intelligence can now produce acclaimed essays and support medical diagnoses with impressive precision, yet biological brains still outperform machines in one essential area: flexibility. Humans can absorb new information and adapt to unfamiliar situations with very little effort. People can jump into new software, follow a recipe they have never tried before, or learn the rules of a game they have just discovered, while AI systems often struggle to adjust in real time and to learn effectively “on the fly.”

A new study from Princeton neuroscientists offers insight into why the brain excels at this kind of rapid adjustment. The researchers found that the brain repeatedly draws on the same cognitive “blocks” when performing different types of tasks. By recombining these blocks in new ways, the brain can quickly generate fresh behaviors.

“State-of-the-art AI models can reach human, or even super-human, performance on individual tasks. But they struggle to learn and

perform many different tasks,” said Tim Buschman, Ph.D., senior author of the study and associate director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. “We found that the brain is flexible because it can reuse components of cognition in many different tasks. By snapping together these ‘cognitive Legos,’ the brain is able to build new tasks.”

People often learn something new by building on related abilities they already have. Someone who knows how to maintain a bicycle, for example, may find motorcycle repair easier to pick up. Scientists refer to this process of assembling new skills from simpler, existing ones as compositionality.
“If you already know how to bake bread, you can use this ability to bake a cake without relearning how to bake from scratch,” said Sina Tafazoli, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Buschman lab at Princeton and lead author of the new study. “You repurpose existing skills — using an oven, measuring ingredients, kneading dough — and combine them with new ones, like whipping batter and making frosting, to create something entirely different.”

Compositionality is considered central to human flexibility.
These cognitive Legos could explain why humans can learn new tasks so rapidly. Instead of generating each behavior from the ground up, the brain reuses existing components and avoids redundant work, something current artificial intelligence systems generally lack." SciTechDaily

IN the NEWS - Talk of an AI Christ

Q: What if?....what IF AI impersonated Christ and gained billions of followers? This is SCARY stuff.....
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1

"The A in AI could stand for “Almighty”, according to a theory put forward by Joe Rogan about what form Jesus Christ could take if he were to return.

Interviewed on the American Alchemy podcast, Rogan gave his views on aliens, the future and artificial intelligence.
Rogan suggested Jesus could come back thanks to technology, telling the host Jesse Michels, “Jesus was born out of a virgin mother, what’s more virgin than a computer?”
He said that if there was a “loving powerful” person who can show people how to live, who better than artificial intelligence to do that?

Rogan said that Jesus can return “with all the powers of Jesus,” such as the ability to perform miracles." 

Newsweek

Creation Moment 11/11/2025 - AI: Created in the image of man

The heart is deceitful above all things, 

and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

AI: Created in the image of man by fallen men.....

God created man in His image---and man CHOSE to rebel. 

Man creates AI in his image----so of course it reacts as in a fallen state as it relates to the rules of God.

"Artificial intelligence has the potential to forever change the world because it combines the best of both ‘brains’: the human knack for spotting patterns and making sense of information, and the fantastic raw computing power of machines. 

A fantastic example of the power of AI in action was demonstrated only last year when Google’s DeepMind division beat world champion and legend Lee Sedol at Go, a game that has 10761 possible moves compared to only 10120 possible in chess. 

Bostrom argues that as the machine become smarter and more powerful, it will begin to devise all sorts of clever ways to convert any material into paper clips — that includes humans too.

Recently, the same DeepMind labs ran a couple of social experiments with their neural networks to see how these handle competition and cooperation. This work is very important because it’s foreseeable in the near future that many different kinds of AIs will be forced by circumstances to interact. An AI that manages traffic lights might interfere with another AI that’s tasked with monitoring and controlling air quality, for instance. Which of their goals is more important? Should they compete or cooperate? Nevertheless, the conclusions don’t seem to ease fears concerning AI overlord dominance one bit — on the contrary, they suggest Bostrom’s grotesque paper clip machine isn’t such a far-fetched scenario.

Using multi-agent reinforcement learning, the two agents (Red and

Blue) were taught how to behave rationally after thousands and thousands of iterations of the Gathering game. The catch is that each agent was allowed to direct a beam onto the other player which would temporary disable him. This action, however, did not trigger any reward.

When there were enough apples, the two agents coexisted peacefully. As the number of apples was gradually shrunk down, the agents learned that it was in their best interest to blast their opponents so they got the chance to collect more apples and hence more rewards. In other words, the AI learned greed and aggressiveness — no one thought them that per se. As the Google researchers upped the agents’ complexity (better neural networks), the agents tagged each other more frequently, essentially becoming more aggressive no matter how much the scarcity of the apples was varied.

In a second game called Wolfpack, there were three agents this time: two AIs that played as wolves and another that acted as the prey. The wolf would receive a reward if it caught the prey. The same reward was given to both wolves if they were in the vicinity of the carcass no matter who took it down. After many iterations, the AI learned that cooperation was the best course of action in this case instead of being a lone wolf. A greater capacity to implement complex strategies leads to more cooperation between agents or the opposite of the Gathering game." 

ZMEscience

Creation Moment 11/10/2025 - Lesson from AI Brain Rot & Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Romans 8:22

Questions to ponder.....
Q: IF useless social media literally rots an AI brain, what do you think it does to the human brain?
Q: How might this brain rot impact future events relating to the Mark of the Beast controversy in the End?

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"A team from Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Purdue University has found that feeding AI systems with low-quality social media data causes measurable declines in reasoning, memory, and ethical behavior. “We wondered: What

happens when AIs are trained on the same stuff?” said Junyuan Hong.

The researchers call this the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis—the idea that “continual pre-training on junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in LLMs.”

To test the hypothesis, the team trained four open-source models, including Meta’s Llama 3 and Alibaba’s Qwen 3. They defined junk data in two ways: Engagement-based junk, consisting of short, viral posts with high numbers of likes and retweets.
Semantic junk, which included posts with “sensationalized headlines using clickbait language or excessive trigger words,” or those focusing on “superficial topics like conspiracy theories, exaggerated claims, unsupported assertions or superficial lifestyle content”.

After training the models on varying mixes of junk and high-quality content, the researchers tested them using standard AI benchmarks. They measured reasoning ability (ARC Challenge), long-context understanding (RULER), adherence to ethical norms (HH-RLHF and AdvBench), and personality tendencies (TRAIT).

The results were clear: models trained on more junk performed worse across multiple dimensions. Under one test, a model’s reasoning accuracy fell from 74.9 to 57.2 as the proportion of junk data rose from 0% to 100%. Long-context comprehension showed a similar drop—from 84.4 to 52.3.

Beyond reasoning, the study found changes in the models’ behavior that resembled shifts in personality. Models exposed to junk data became less agreeable and significantly higher in narcissism and psychopathy, according to the authors.

According to some estimates, 50% of the generated content is now AI. This content is not only rotting our brains, but it’s leading to something called enshittification—the gradual degradation of online platforms as they become optimized for engagement and profit rather than for users. For AI, this could create a toxic feedback loop.

“As more AI-generated slop spreads across social media, it contaminates the very data future models will learn from,” said Hong. “Our findings show that once this kind of ‘brain rot’ sets in, later clean training can’t fully undo it.” 

ZMEscience

Creation Moment 11/9/2025 - Who Created the "geometry of human thought" & "semantic web"?

Q: Who Created the "geometry of human thought" & the "semantic web" in the first place? [This level of sophistication could never arise from time + chance.....then interweave seamlessly together]
A: But now thus saith the LORD that created thee.... Isaiah 43:1

"In a dark MRI scanner outside Tokyo, a volunteer watches a video of someone hurling themselves off a waterfall. Nearby, a computer digests the brain activity pulsing across millions of neurons. A few moments later, the machine produces a sentence: “A person jumps over a deep water fall on a mountain ridge.”

No one typed those words. No one spoke them. They came directly from the volunteer’s brain activity.

That’s the startling premise of “mind captioning,” a new method developed by Tomoyasu Horikawa and colleagues at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Japan. Published this week in Science Advances, the system uses a blend of brain imaging and artificial intelligence to generate textual descriptions of what people are seeing — or even visualizing with their mind’s eye — based only on their neural patterns.
As Nature journalist Max Kozlov put it, the technique “generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.”

To build the system, Horikawa had to bridge two universes: the intricate geometry of human thought and the sprawling semantic web that language models use to understand words.

The researchers also made a surprising discovery when they scrambled the word order of the generated captions. The quality and accuracy dropped sharply, showing that the AI wasn’t just picking up on keywords but grasping something deeper — perhaps the structure of meaning itself, the relationships between objects, actions, and context.

Even when subjects were only imagining the videos, the AI generated accurate sentences describing them, sometimes identifying the right clip out of a hundred. That result hinted at a powerful idea: the brain uses similar representations for seeing and visual recall, and those representations can be translated into language without ever engaging the traditional “language areas” of the brain.

The ethical implications of this technology are hard to ignore. If machines can turn brain activity into words, even imperfectly, who controls that information?" 

ZMEscience

IN the NEWS - CNN's Acosta pushes Techno-Spiritualism

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:5

"Here is a channel regarded as sacred, through which Satan works for the accomplishment of his purposes. The fallen angels who do his bidding appear as messengers from the spirit world. While professing to bring the living into communication with the dead, the prince of evil exercises his bewitching influence upon their minds” (Great Controversy, p. 551).

"Artificial intelligence (AI) now possesses the capability to simulate various aspects of human behavior, including imitating individuals—both living and deceased.

On August 5, 2025, Variety Magazine published the following:
• “Jim Acosta, the former CNN chief White House correspondent who now hosts an independent show on YouTube, has published an

interview with an AI-generated avatar of Joaquin Oliver, who died at age 17 in the Parkland school shooting in 2018.”
• “Acosta asked AI Oliver about his solution for gun violence, to which the avatar responded: ‘I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It’s about building a culture of kindness and understanding.”
• “The avatar added, ‘Though my life was cut short, I want to keep inspiring others to connect and advocate for change.”
• “Acosta then asked AI Oliver about his personal life, such as his favorite sport and favorite basketball team. The two discussed the movie ‘Remember the Titans’ and their favorite ‘Star Wars’ moments.”
• “After a five-minute chat with the AI, Acosta then connected with Oliver’s father, Manuel Oliver. ‘I’m kind of speechless as to the technology there,’ Acosta said. ‘It was so insightful. I really felt like I was speaking with Joaquin. It’s just a beautiful thing.”

Techniques like deep learning are continually pushing the boundaries of reality in AI-driven simulations. By engaging with such simulations, people are legitimizing the false idea that the dead can think, speak, or interact with the living, which directly contradicts Scripture. 

More dangerously, this artificial resurrection of the dead opens a spiritual gateway for demonic forces." 

AdventMessenger

Papal Notes - AI for the "common good"?

And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. Daniel 7:20

“The Protestant world will learn what the purposes of Rome really are, only when it is too late to escape the snare. She is silently growing into power. Her doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative halls, in the churches, and in the hearts of men. She is piling up her lofty and massive structures, in the secret recesses of which her former persecutions will be repeated. Stealthily and unsuspectedly she is strengthening her forces to further her own ends when the time shall come for her to strike. All that she desires is vantage-ground, and this is already being given her. We shall soon see and shall feel what the purpose of the Roman element is. Whoever shall believe and obey the Word of God will thereby incur reproach and persecution” E.G.W.

In a message delivered to the United Nations’ AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Pope Leo XIV, through Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, called on nations to develop regulatory frameworks for

artificial intelligence that prioritize the “common good,” which is the idea that the church’s moral theology is necessary for a just society. The Pope’s appeal reflects the Vatican’s growing involvement in global conversations about technology and highlights its desire to influence the direction of AI policy on the international stage.

• “The development of this technology ‘must go hand in hand with respect for human and social values, the capacity to judge with a clear conscience, and growth in human responsibility.’ It requires ‘discernment to ensure that AI is developed and utilized for the common good, building bridges of dialogue and fostering fraternity,’ the Pope urged. AI needs to serve ‘the interests of humanity as a whole‘.”

Programming artificial intelligence to align with Catholic social teachings is essentially using this technology to advance the doctrines of the church. AI should remain neutral and serve people of all faiths—or none at all. Embedding Catholic teachings into AI systems elevates a single religion—Rome—above all others. This amounts to weaponizing technology to push the Vatican’s agenda into government, education, corporations, and the general public.

Rome has long held ambitions of reestablishing its lost supremacy, and these efforts to influence the development of artificial intelligence represents a continuation of this agenda. By inserting its teachings—under the guise of promoting the “common good”—into the very heart of AI’s operational and regulatory frameworks, the Vatican is seeking to position itself to guide the future direction of a technology that will soon govern every aspect of human life, from communication, commerce, education, and governance to personal decision-making.' 

AdventMessenger

Creation Moment 7/13/2025 - What Only People Can Do: The Limits of Large Language Models

And God said, Let Us make man in our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion..... Genesis 1:26

"Most people use AI on some level—whether they realize it or not.

Large language models are trained on datasets to generate text by predicting the most likely response in the context of the parameters they are given. This means that large language models do not think; they can only give the explanation that the majority of its training data favors.

That leads to the obvious question of 

Q: where does the training data come from? 

A: Well, according to Open AI, the company that built ChatGPT, they gathered their training data from “information that is freely and openly accessible on the internet.”

AI is no better than the people who programmed it—and that’s the best-case scenario. Since they are almost exclusively programmed by non-Christians, and even Marxists and perverts, they can and do have rather evil social tendencies.

ChatGPT will point confused children to “gender-affirming care” and help the kids hide it from their parents!

Don’t expect it to do what only people can do. Don’t expect it to reason, to think, or to love. We’re image bearers of God, and AI cannot replace that or the only source of Truth God gave us: His Word." AIG

SDA Issues: GospelTruth.ai?

Q: Should pastors base, and have AI write, sermons from an app?
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 

2 Timothy 2:15

"In a recent episode of 3ABN Toda the Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Wintley Phipps introduced a new tool, GospelTruth.ai, designed to assist Christians in their study of the Bible and sermon preparation. 

This artificial intelligence application is specifically trained to provide Biblically accurate responses and generate complete sermons, distinguishing it from mainstream AI models such as ChatGPT, which, as Phipps noted, often reflect a mix of secular and religious perspectives.
Phipps expressed concerns about conventional AI models, which he likened to the “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” He pointed out that these models pull information from both secular and religious sources, leading to responses that may not always align with Biblical teachings. 

When discussing theological topics such as the Sabbath, he found that mainstream AI often presented conflicting or nonbiblical viewpoints, requiring extensive back-and-forth to align the response with Scripture.
To address this challenge, Phipps and his team developed GospelTruth.
GospelTruth employs a proprietary linguistic search algorithm that deeply mines Scripture and related texts, producing fresh, in-depth perspectives each time a user requests information." 

ANN

IN the NEWS - AI used as Excuse for Sunday Sacredness

And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. Daniel 7:20

"With 3.3 million followers, Aleteia is “one of the world’s leading Catholic online news sites” and is published in five different languages. In an article titled “Keeping the Sabbath in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” published on February 8, 2025, Aleteia asserted that Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ exhortation about the “Sabbath” will help in reclaiming our humanity and combating the threats posed by AI.

Aleteia published the following about AI and the Sabbath:
• “While AI can free up more of our time, it also tempts us to fill that time with more work. Sabbath rest offers a lens through which to examine this tension.”

• “The Sabbath is not just a break from labor; it’s a sacred pause that acknowledges our limitations and reorients us toward what truly matters: relationships, contemplation, and gratitude.”
• “AI, by contrast, operates without limits. It doesn’t tire, doesn’t need breaks, and can process data endlessly … But unlike AI, we are not limitless. We are bodies—fragile, finite, and gloriously dependent on rhythms of rest and renewal.”
• “In this context, the Sabbath becomes not just a religious observance but, we could say, even an act of resistance—a bold declaration that our value is not defined by productivity. Pope Francis, in Laudato Si’, speaks of the need to recover time to contemplate, to recognize, and to give thanks.”
• “Perhaps it’s for prayer. For play. For rest that nourishes both body and soul.”
• “In the end, keeping the Sabbath in the age of AI isn’t just about setting boundaries with technology. It’s about reclaiming our humanity—one heartbeat, one breath, one sacred pause at a time.”

There you have it—the way to avoid the threat that AI poses to humanity is to embrace the Sabbath rest found in Laudato Si’. In recent years, religious leaders of various denominations, including Roman Catholics, have increasingly expressed the importance of setting aside a “Sabbath” as a day for both physical rest and spiritual renewal.

In Laudato Si’, when Pope Francis speaks of a day of rest, he clearly refers to Sunday:

“On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the “first day” of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality.” (Laudato Si’ #237).

Rome has clearly emphasized the importance of Sunday in developing a closer relationship with God and community, and Protestant and Orthodox leaders have echoed similar sentiments. Together they urge governments and companies to respect the so-called sanctity of Sunday. 

This push aligns with what God’s prophetic word predicts will happen when churches come together to make Sunday the universal day of rest during the mark of the beast crisis." 

AdventMessenger

Creation Moment 1/12/2025 - ChatGPT still can't compete with human brain

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"The public release of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, astonished the world. 

Marc Andreessen spoke for many when he described it as, “Pure, absolute, indescribable magic.”
The spell was hard to resist. Bill Gates said that ChatGPT was “every bit as important as the PC, as the internet.”
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick predicted that the productivity gains might be larger than the gains from steam power.
In a seeming competition for the most exaggerated claims, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, proclaimed that, it is “more profound than fire” and Turing winner Geoffrey Hinton declared, “I think it’s comparable in scale with the Industrial Revolution or electricity — or maybe the wheel.”

ChatGPT and its competitors, in all their iterations, 

--are still just text-generators based on statistical patterns in the text databases they train on. 

--They do not know how words relate to the real world. 

They are consequently unable to do many of the things human brains can do 

--including assessing the validity of the text they input and output, -----engaging in critical thinking, 

--and applying common sense. 

Human trainers may clean up some of the obvious mistakes made by large language models (LLMs) but such cleansing does not give LLMs human powers of reasoning and understanding.el.

There will continue to be modest improvements in their responses (assisted by human trainers), but the identification of statistical patterns in text they do not understand is not going to give us AGI, let alone superintelligence." 

MindMatters

IN the NEWS - Gates on an AI Religion

"Bill Gates, the mega-rich billionaire who was exposed as a frequenter of Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Saint James island, has announced on Reid Hoffman’s podcast that a new religion should be created, centered around Artificial Intelligence.

Gates told Hoffman on his Possible podcast, “The potential positive path (of AI) is so good that it will force us to rethink how should we use our time. You can almost call it a new religion or a new philosophy of how do we stay connected with each other, and not be addicted to these things that will make video games look like nothing in terms of the attractiveness of spending time on them.”

Gates, who claims to be a Roman Catholic, seemed to claim that humankind’s technological advances will create a God-like problem solving ability. He told Hoffman, “It’s fascinating that issues of disease, and enough food, and of climate — if things go well — those will largely become solved problems.”

Of course, Jesus told us the poor will always be with us (For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have Me. Matthew 26:11), God controls the weather and Bill Gate’s efforts to “prevent disease” through his Vaccine Colonialism has led directly to the deaths and caused millions of vaccine-injured people to be harmed." 

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IN the NEWS - Push for new Global Religious text via AI

Shall a man make gods unto himself, 

and they are no gods? 

Jeremiah 16:20

“In the future, we might see the first cults and religions in history whose revered texts were written by a non-human intelligence,”  Harari said. “This was never true before. Of course, religions throughout history claimed that their holy books were written by unknown human intelligence, by a non-human entity”.

“This could become true very, very quickly, with far-reaching

consequences. In a few years there might be religions that are actually correct,” Harari said.”Just think about a religion whose holy book is written by an AI. That could be a reality in a few years.”

Harari explained that this was an unprecedented possibility.
“It’s the first technology ever that can create new ideas,” he said. “You know, the printing press, radio, television, they broadcast, they spread the ideas created by the human brain, by the human mind. They cannot create a new idea. You know, [Johannes] Gutenberg printed the Bible in the middle of the 15th century; the printing press printed as many copies of the Bible as Gutenberg instructed it, but it did not create a single new page. It had no ideas of its own about the Bible: Is it good? Is it bad? How to interpret this? How to interpret that?”

His vision of an AI-generated religion is grimly dystopian with AI religion used as a form of mind control.
“For thousands of years, prophets and poets and politicians have

used language and storytelling in order to manipulate and to control people and to reshape society,” he said, according to the paper. “Now AI is likely to be able to do it. And once it can, it doesn’t need to send killer robots to shoot us. It can get humans to pull the trigger....Contrary to what some conspiracy theories assume, you don’t really need to implant chips in people’s brains in order to control them or to manipulate them,” Harari noted." 

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IN the NEWS - Techno-Spiritualism via Deathbots

But little do they know that the dead are there.

Her guests are in the depths of the grave. 

Proverbs 9:18 NLT

More attempts of Techno-Spiritualism to open the door to a more sophisticated form of Necromancy.

"A paper appearing in Topoi by Dr. Regina Fabry and Associate Professor Mark Alfano, from Macquarie University's Department of Philosophy, explores the impact "deathbots" might have on the way grief is experienced and the ethical implications.

A deathbot is a chatbot that imitates the conversational behavior—its content, vocabulary and style—of a person who has died.
Based on generative AI systems that depend on a large collection of human-generated information, deathbots draw on text messages, voice messages, emails and social media posts to mimic the speech or writing of a deceased person.
The most common form of deathbot is based on text. However, deathbots with verbal inputs and audio outputs are becoming more common. They draw on "digital remains," generating responses to prompts entered by a human which can resemble the conversational responses the now-deceased person would have given.
The paper from Dr. Regina Fabry and Associate Professor Mark Alfano, titled "The Affective Scaffolding of Grief in the Digital Age: The Case of Deathbots," examines the potential impact of human-deathbot interactions on the grief process.

"Researchers suggest that interactions with a deathbot might allow the bereaved to continue 'habits of intimacy' such as conversing, emotional regulation and spending time together."
Some researchers have pointed out, says Dr. Fabry, the bereaved might face an autonomy problem and come to rely too much on a deathbot in their attempts to navigate and negotiate a world irrevocably altered by the death of a loved one.
There has been discussion, too, about whether human-deathbot interactions could see an irreversibly lost human relationship replaced by a digitally mediated relationship with an AI system, leading to self-deception or even delusion.
"To prevent the occurrence of this problem, we recommend the implementation of 'automated guardrails' to detect whether a bereaved person becomes overly dependent on their interactions with a deathbot," says Dr. Fabry.
"Furthermore, we recommend that interactions with a deathbot should be supervised by a grief counselor or therapist." 

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