{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Nuance: Being Faithful in the Public Square","title":"Christians and AI: The Danger of Deformation | Rev. David Kim","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2007,"description":"If God can speak through a donkey, can He speak through artificial intelligence? \nAI and the church are converging faster than most Christians are prepared to engage, and the theological stakes are higher than the cultural conversation usually acknowledges.\nIn this episode of Nuance, host Case Thorp sits down with Reverend Dr. David Kim, founder of Goldenwood, to explore what Christians and AI have to say to one another. David argues that because God's providence remains active in the world, faith and artificial intelligence need not be held apart. The church can approach new technologies with \"hopeful intelligence,\" a posture that takes seriously both AI's capacity for deception and its potential for genuine good. Drawing on Walter Brueggemann's prophetic imagination, David makes the case that AI can expand our ability to understand systemic brokenness and materialize hope in concrete ways. \nFrom an \"exilic\" posture toward cultural engagement to the practical implications of what David calls \"the enchanted frame,\" this conversation offers a theological grammar for one of the defining technologies of our time.\n🔑 Key Topics Covered in This Episode:\nHopeful Intelligence: Moving beyond fear to envision how generative AI can connect people and materialize hope in practical ways.\nExilic Discipleship: Understanding our relationship with technology through the Old Testament paradigm of living as exiles who seek the peace of the city.\nThe Prophetic Imagination and AI: Applying Brueggemann's concepts to see how AI's ability to synthesize massive amounts of data can help humans grasp the true complexity of systemic brokenness.\nThe Enchanted Frame: How giving a large language model parameters that assume God's presence shifts its outputs and opens it as a tool for spiritual reflection.\nThe Deception Concern: Acknowledging the Genesis 3-rooted dangers of AI being used to blur the lines between truth and deception.\n📚 Episode Resources:\nGoldenwood: https://goldenwoodnyc.org...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/XpK8J1UaK-lAhdin2b3t4A_PNLlgHqZ7_lESbs8_y-0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMzNjUyLzE2NjE3/ODcyNTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}