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The Catholic Tradition Podcast: 188 – Christians in opposition to AI artwork

Chris Greene

March 2, 2025
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The Catholic Tradition Podcast: 188 – Christians in opposition to AI artwork

Jan 10, 2025

There’s growing hypothesis and concern
in regards to the position of AI in the way forward for the humanities. Surprisingly, many
Christians are already embracing the usage of AI to provide pictures of
the saints. On this episode, Thomas and Susannah Black Roberts make
the argument for why AI artwork is a contradiction in phrases. It’s
analogous to pornography in that it scratches the itch to “create”
with out truly reaching the thing of the will in query. We
shouldn’t use expertise to switch the human specialties: “God
received’t settle for worship that we outsource.” Plus, the hazard of
demonic affect by means of AI shouldn’t be missed.

Susannah Black Roberts is a senior editor
of Plough and has written for publications
together with First Issues, Fare
Ahead, Entrance Porch Republic, Mere
Orthodoxy, and The American
Conservative.

Hyperlinks

Susannah’s thread on Twitter https://x.com/suzania/standing/1866516737057083862

Plough Quarterly https://www.plough.com/

PloughCast 66: The Know-how of Demons w/
Paul Kingsnorth
https://www.plough.com/en/subjects/life/expertise/the-technology-of-demons

David Schaengold, “Computer systems Cannot Do Math”
https://www.plough.com/en/subjects/life/expertise/computers-cant-do-math

Robert Cotton, “Augustine, AI, and the Demon
Heuristic” https://mereorthodoxy.com/augustine-ai-and-the-demon-heuristic

The Anchored Argosy https://argosy.substack.com/

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