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Will A.I. Take Our Jobs? · The Entrepreneur's Wife: Finding Purpose as the Helper of a Small Business Owner in a Feminist Obsessed World

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, what's up guys?
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Entrepreneur's Wife podcast.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Carly Raines, and this is where we talk about finding purpose at the helpers to our small business owners in this feminist obsessed world.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Today we're going to be talking about AI, artificial intelligence, the pros, the cons, and my personal hot takes about this from three different angles.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be talking about it from the business angle, from a mom who is also a Christian, and from the creative angle, especially when it comes to art and writing and just the creative works that humans can do.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I also want to just clarify that this is my opinion based on knowledge that I know.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, take this with a grain of salt.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, think about it yourself.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I encourage you to be open-minded, um, because some of the stuff that I'm going to say might um, you know, just ruffle your feathers and you might not agree.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's totally okay.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: The point in this conversation is the inevitable that artificial intelligence is the future, that it's happening, that it's growing rapidly, that it is advancing rapidly, and I think it would be dumb of us, even if we don't agree with how it's being used.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's dumb and immature of us to pretend like we can just make it go away because I honestly believe we can't make it go away.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that we're in a transitional period in human history, like when they went from carts and buggies to cars.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: And there were probably a lot of people back then who also were upset at what cars were gonna do to the environment and just a whole bunch of different stuff.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: And they probably were like, we just need to like get rid of cars and you know, not um have them exist, and just uh they probably had that mindset too, because I've heard a lot of people have that mindset about artificial intelligence, and the truth of the matter is cars advanced, and I bet all of us who are listening to this are glad we have our AC nice cushioned cup holders, radio Bluetooth cars, um, rather than riding on a horse and a buggy.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I also want to say that humans don't like change, like our human nature psychologically does not like change, the body does not respond well to change.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is why we have in our brains a part of our brains that is literally known as the fight or flight or freeze response.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: I believe God created that because he knew our reaction to change is not always positive, and we just don't adjust well.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: We like our routines, we like being comfortable, and when we get out of that comfortability and we get out of our routine, and when we get out of what we know is familiar, that's when we feel uncomfortable, and that's when our body tends to react in different ways.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: So with artificial intelligence, it is a new territory that we are tapping into, and I'm gonna hit this topic, like I said, in three different areas, and I'm kind of I'm trying, I'm gonna try to keep it structured.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: I've tried to record this podcast a couple times, and I feel like I was just jumping all over the place within talking about business and being a mom and a Christian and creative endeavors, and it's hard because I have a life that involves all three, so I'm still probably gonna jump all over the place, but I'm gonna try to keep it organized.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: So um, we're gonna start with the business side of it because I think that's where it stems from, and um, I want to well no, I'll I'll jump into that with the mom Christian side of it.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna start with the business side.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: So honestly, with us owning a small business, AI has really helped in a lot of ways.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's I've seen more pros from the business side than I've seen cons.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: It helps you produce content faster, it helps you frame your ideas faster, it helps you get information faster.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: The really big kicker is if you hear me repeating this word over and over again, faster, like efficiency.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: It just can move and think faster than we can, and it's collecting data faster than we can, and it can do things faster than we can.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's great from a business standpoint because the faster you do something, the faster you're going to get a return, an ROI, which is a return on investment, whether that's a customer or money or whatever.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, a big kicker in our conversation is how AI is being used.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think AI in and of itself is bad, and I think a lot of people would agree with that.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's the actual invention itself, I think it's how AI is programmed and how people are using it that makes it whether it falls under the good or evil category.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: And you see this with anything.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: We see this with cars, we especially see this with guns.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Guns is a big political debate, and there's a thing that happened at In N Out, which is a great example of what we're talking about because there was a shooter and he was using his gun for evil to shoot people, and thankfully, there was a bystander who also was carrying a gun, and he used his gun to distract the shooter so more people didn't die.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: So there is a way to use what is invented for good or to use it for evil, and I think AI is the same way, and going switching over to the Christian mom perspective, we uh have DNA, and something I want people to understand is that the only creator, the only being that can actually create something out of nothing is God Himself.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we're about to dip into the Christian and the creative side of this, and I want you to hear what I'm saying.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: I do not want you to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: We can't create anything.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I learned this in graphic design school.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: So when you are creating something, you actually have to have inspiration behind what you're gonna create because you can't simply create something from a blank page, you can't create what you don't know, and so even in graphic design school, we would actually what create what is called mood boards, and it is a big accumulation of a bunch of inspiring graphics or cover designs or whatever the art piece, the canvas that we're gonna make is you look up online actually a bunch of different inspirations, which is the exact thing that you're gonna create: fonts, aesthetics, vibes, images, color scheme, all this different stuff.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: You look up the type of graphic that you want to create, and you look up inspirations for it, and then you take those inspirations and you make your own.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, you're not plagiarizing.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: There's a difference between inspiration and plagiarism.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Plagiarism, you are literally just copying what someone else did.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but in the creative space, I mean, we do use templates nowadays.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Let's be real, guys.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: On Canva, they have templates that are already pre-made templates that you can use for your social media or for a graphic or whatever.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: On um online, there were times where I would look up a really cool graphic and I loved how it was laid out, and I might the theme of my graphic might be different, but I'm gonna use the same layout that this graphic had that I really liked.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: So you can't create anything from a blank canvas.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: The only being that can do that is God Himself when He said, Let there be light, and it literally went from nothing to something.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, AI is the same way, AI has to take inspiration and then create something out of it.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: I understand people's frustration with AI stealing books or stealing ideas or stealing images or stealing things like that.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: It is frustrating, however, I also want to circle it back and say, Well, you're a little no different when it comes to creating things because you're gonna see something that sparks an idea or sparks inspiration for what you want to do, and you might twist it a little bit to make it unique, and you might, you know, change some stuff to make it original, but at the end of the day, Ecclesiastes Song is or sorry, sorry, Solomon, the author of Ecclesiastes, literally says there is nothing new under the sun.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: So everything has been thought of, maybe not in the environment or in the way that you thought of it, but it's probably been thought of.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: The general idea of it has been thought of, and where we bring in our originality and our human side is in making it unique, is in making it, you know, a little bit original.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, guys, I also want to be like, there's nothing new under the sun, so the only the only thing that God, and again, going back to God, that God creates that is original and unique is literally us humans.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: That that is the only thing that I think at the end of the day, no one can be like another person, and artificial intelligence can't take that, but it can still use the same idea of creating people, but again, it it has to take inspiration from somewhere, and so I say that to say I want to hit this topic of DNA because I was talking with my uncle, and I guys, there is so much negative talk about artificial intelligence on social media within the Christian realm, within creative, the creative realm, especially with writing and art and stuff.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, oh my gosh, everything's negative about AI.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I get it, you're you're a little bit freaked out about your job, and our writers gonna go away, our teachers gonna go away.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I remember a professor when I was in grad school, she literally told me she was like, Yeah, in 10 years, they're not gonna need teachers because artificial intelligence is gonna take our jobs, and you know what?
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: That might happen.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, at the end of the day, business it comes down to sadly money.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: It comes down to business.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: And if a business can save money, they're probably gonna do it.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: And if they can save money with artificial intelligence, they're probably gonna do it.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And as a person, you might think, well, morally, that sucks, and that's not right, and yada yada yada.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then at the same time, from the business perspective, I get that that sucks that your job might change, but I also want to ask the question of well, does it really, does it really suck because you can no longer do that job anymore?
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Or are you so upset because you've been doing something for so long and it's changing now, and now you have to change, and your body does not like change, and so you're reacting from the change and from the unknown.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I also want to say from the Christian perspective, so you guys, I'm jumping around.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: I told y'all I'd be jumping around.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: I also want to say from the Christian perspective, um, I mean, God's got a plan.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, I think us freaking out about like, our writers gonna be no more, is our teachers gonna be no more, like what's gonna happen with artificial intelligence.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: I I think God knows like what's gonna happen.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I think for us, it's important to remember Jeremiah 29, 11, where he has plans for us, and we just have to trust him.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: And like, yeah, you your job might be replaced with artificial intelligence, but I hope you know that the Lord still has a plan for your life, and even if your job is replaced, he's gonna have something else for you to do.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I I just wish that as especially Christian creators, we had that perspective going into AI.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: I understand you want to advocate for originality and you know, us being human and and us connecting with readers, and and I totally get that, and I think that there is a place for that, and we're gonna hop into that in a minute, but I also think that we're in a transition for how we go about being creative, and we're in a transition for how ideas are formed, and just we're just in a transitional period, and I wonder at the same time I thought about this the other day, I don't know if this is actual factual.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is just me thinking out loud.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: But I wonder if when the printing press came out and they started typing things instead of handwriting them, I wonder if there was a big blow-up about that.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, everyone's not gonna know how to write anymore because now we have the printing press, and it's so not original because everybody's got their own handwriting, and you can tell who a letter is from from their own handwriting, and now we have the printing press and it's printing all these things, all these books, and like how are we gonna tell who wrote it?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: And no one's gonna know how to write cursive or handwrite anymore, they're gonna be subject to the computer or the typewriter or whatever, you know.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I wonder if that was going through their minds, and I bet that change was hard for them too.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: But what did the printing press offer?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: It offered a way for books and you know, documents to be printed faster.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Again, this concept of efficiency and for it to happen faster.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was a way for them to get information out quicker, and it actually has worked really great in terms of the Bible and getting the Bible out, especially to countries that did not have a Bible or did not have scrolls, written scrolls.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't have what are those people called that are bald?
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: They're men that are bald.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: You don't know who I'm talking what I'm talking about.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I can't think of their names, but literally their whole job was to write the Bible.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they didn't have those.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: And so now, because of the printing press, the Bible can be distributed anywhere, pretty much.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: And it it was has been used for good.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: Now, has it been used for evil?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, because we live under the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: So everything is gonna be used for good and it's gonna be used for evil.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I think this should be our perspective.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't think AI is a bad thing.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: I, you know, we can debate about if it's gonna be, you know, the Antichrist or whatever, but I don't think it's gonna be a bad thing.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: I honestly think it is a way for us to produce content at a faster rate.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and also from a business side, it's gonna it's just gonna help, especially small businesses.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yes, it'll help big corporations, but if small businesses learn how to use artificial intelligence to their advantage, I mean, that will offer more jobs and that will offer more money for them, and they will be able to reach their customers quicker.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I think from the creative side, I mean, I hate to say this, but like even before this topic of AI was talked about, we had Grammarly and we had autocorrect, and that's a form of AI.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, literally, I go into Grammarly and it will change my words and my sentences to structure it better, and it's like, okay, guys, the original idea was mine, and now artificial intelligence is making it better.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Is that wrong?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's taking the place of an editor.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there we still have human editors, and so I do think that it can be used for a lot of good.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: And going back to DNA, because I kind of rambled, but going back to DNA, I had a conversation with my uncle a few months ago, and me and my uncle talk a lot about conspiracy theories and different stuff, and um, we got to talk about artificial intelligence, and it was just such a negative conversation of like artificial intelligence is gonna take over.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: They're machines, they're wanting to make like human robot machines for military use and all this different stuff.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: And as humans, I mean, we can die, so you fight against a machine, you're probably not gonna have as much luck.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because the machine can typically be stronger than a human, and it's made out of metal and different stuff.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so my mind was just spiraling into oh my gosh, it's the end of the world.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: What are we gonna do?
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: There's no hope, and that's like the biggest thing that I want to encourage you with is this concept of hope, because no matter what happens, again, God has a plan, like He has a plan for our life, and it always ends with hope.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just spiraling, having no hope, and then it dawned on me, and I I want to say that this was the Holy Spirit like trying to help me see the big picture of things, but it dawned on me that artificial intelligence is programmed, you have to code it in order to make it, and in the same way, we are coded with DNA.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: That is what our unique self, that's what makes us unique, is our DNA.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: And when we are pre-Jesus, and when we are before becoming a Christian, we are coded with the desires of the flesh, and actually, scripture talks about this.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: We are coded with a desire to sin and a desire to rebel and a desire to not please God, and that is our coding, and we act based on how we're coded, and then you become a Christian, you repent, the Lord does a radical transformation in your life.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: You're covered by the blood, you get baptized, all this stuff, right, happens when you find Jesus, and all of a sudden you are born again, and you are coded with a new code, and that code is actually a desire to please God and a desire to do his will, and is a desire to do good.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: And over time, this coding goes from a baby Christian and struggling with temptations and struggling with works of the flesh and struggling with things, and over time, as you grow in your relationship with God, he sanctifies you and he changes your code, and it changes to be more and more like Christ.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Why can't artificial intelligence be the same thing?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, in my head, I'm like, the real question we should be asking is are Christians producing AI uh tools?
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Are they producing, are they inventing uh AI in a way that it's coded to do good?
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: That it's coded to follow characteristics.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, we talk a lot about like what AI can do with images, especially with child images and different stuff on social media.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, that that is true.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: There are evil people that's gonna use it for evil, but why can't we also make AI that detects that stuff and that blocks it and removes it and doesn't allow them access to that and puts parameters and boundaries around that, you know?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I think I realized in that moment, oh my gosh, this is not a hopeless topic.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is not just an end-of-the-world topic.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: This is something that God can use for good, um, and has given us, I believe, the tools and the knowledge to figure out how to use for good.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's like from my Christian mom perspective.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I love it because there are a lot of debates about should you post your kid online, and a lot of people are against it.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: There are two families that I actually just really admire.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: They post their kids online, they are not afraid to post their a picture of their kid.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it's the Robinson family from Duck Dynasty, and it is the Tebow family, Tim and Demi Tebow.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: And what is crazy to me is the like Sadie and her dad Willie, the Duck Dynasty family, okay, they've been a part of Hollywood for generations.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I love what Corey, the mom, she's a grandma now, she's Willie's wife.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: I love what she says because she admits, yes, in Hollywood, there's a lot of evil.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: But she was she basically was like, why would we not as Christians try to be the light, like be the light of the world in this dark place?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I love it because she's not ignoring the existence of something.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Because let's be honest, guys, social media and technology like that is the future.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: And And again, I am not shaming anyone who doesn't post their kid online.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if that's your decision, that's your decision.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, I'm also like, that's the future.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, we're never gonna social media is never gonna go away.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Technology is never gonna go away.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: If anything, it's just gonna advance further.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yes, if you choose not to post your kid online, that is your conviction and that is your decision.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: But I love what she said because as someone who has seen the bad and has seen the evil and been in that world, she is like, hey, like we're actually going to be a light that can be used for God's glory, we're not going to just ignore or try to get rid of what is already happening because the truth is it's not going away.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I love um Tim Tebow and Demi Tebow because they post their their daughter online, and his foundation literally is for saving kids out of sex trafficking.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, if any family would not want to post their kid online, it would have been them.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like they would be the ones to say, hey, we're not gonna post our child online.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: But they are super popular and they are on the news all the time.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: And so a part of me is like, if they're okay with how popular they are, if they're okay with posting their kid online, then I need to like I feel like I it's okay for me to post my kid online.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so those are just two families that I just you know, I think out of all families, they they're still posting their kids online, and I'm like, okay, they they see the good that can be used um through this, and so I want to hit on as our last part, I want to hit on the writing perspective because there's been a lot of talk um that I've seen from writers that they I feel like it is very fear-based that they are scared that their industry that they love and that they're so passionate about that they pour so much into is gonna be taken away.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, artificial intelligence is gonna become the new writer, the new best-selling writer, and there's not gonna be a need for writers or artists anymore.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: And first off, I want to say we can't make an idol of the thing we feel like God is calling us to do.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: I like when I when I started like pursuing my writing career, um, I feel like the Lord very much was adamant about this is something that I do for him and with him.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is not this should not become my golden calf.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it's very tempting when you're passionate about something for it to become your golden calf.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like when you love it, when you enjoy it, like it's so tempting to just make that your everything.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember one day I was running and I was brainstorming story ideas, and I remember the Lord so clearly.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, He convicted me and He said, the best book that will ever be written and has ever been written is the Bible, and that was very convicting.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: That pretty much put me in my place because I think as writers, we all desire to be bestsellers, but the Lord was very adamant to say that He is the best, He is the best writer, the Holy Spirit is the is the best idea inspiring um creator, and nothing can compare to his work and what he has done.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so I want to say that even if I'm not saying it's gonna happen, I honestly don't think writers and editors and people in the publishing industry will be replaced, but even if we are, I want I want you to, you're gonna have to be okay with even if.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, even if the worst of the worst happens and your writing career gets taken away, I think asking yourself that question of okay, God, even if my writing career is replaced by AI, like, do I believe you still have a purpose for me?
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Do I believe you still have a plan for me?
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and honestly, like, has this become my idol?
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Has this become my golden calf?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I think just being real and honest and realizing that there's more to life than writing and and our work, and there's more to life than just what we do, um, like job-wise, it it's yes, it becomes our everything because it's so personal to us, but at the same time, I think that there's just more to life than that.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: And there have been seasons of my life where God has asked me to lay down writing in a time where I didn't want to lay it down, and it it humbled me and just made me realize that there is more to my purpose and what he has called me to do than than just writing, and writing is a big part, and I love it, and I will always love writing, and I love storytelling, and I just love the idea of just the whole English language and just all of that, and it's beautiful, but I also want to say that God has a plan for us and a purpose for us, and even if AI takes our jobs, like he's still gonna have good for us to do.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I also want to say that I do not fear Christian writers being replaced because one difference that Christian writers have that secular writers don't have is the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and AI can never have that.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yes, I don't, you know, AI is so new, I don't know if AI can regulate emotions.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: I know emotions can be psychologically researched and all that, but and emotions help with you know understanding humans and connecting with humans, and I do believe even with secular authors, like readers love to connect with their authors, and so this comes to the question of what is the goal and what is the objective in writing, and I think there's different objectives, for instance, there was this whole debate about children's books and illustrations and AI doing it, and does is are parents okay with buying a books that are written by AI and stuff.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: I think when it comes to a teaching perspective, um, you know, like the ABCs and counting and just a subject that you're just looking up the facts for, I don't see a problem with AI writing that, illustrating that, using images for that.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't see a problem with that.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're just teaching something that is factual.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think necessarily a human has to necessarily teach that.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, uh there are nonfiction books where there are human experiences and there are stories, and there are um like you want to use real life scenarios and testimonials.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: And again, this is a question of well, how do we go about communicating this?
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do we talk to a machine, to an AI machine, and then AI writes it for us, and we tell AI our story, and then AI writes it in a way that it's told, and that's how we go about it in the future.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, you know.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I don't fear Christian writers being replaced because again, going back to this concept of we have the Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit is something that AI could never have.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: And so in our writing, and you know, I I believe that this is an opportunity for Christian, the Christian industry to excel on top and to really, you know, um make itself stand out compared to the secular industry, because for the first time, we have something that the secular industry can never have, whether they use AI or not, and that is the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and in our writing, and so I think that this is an opportunity for us to be authentic and original and to stand out, and I've heard secular authors talk about that in terms of like the human side of things, like AI can never replace the human side of things, and I do agree with that, but I think as Christians, we should look at this as an opportunity, not necessarily an obstacle.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, there's gonna be challenges, there's gonna be things that we don't know how to do, and we're gonna have to figure out, and you know, this is the first time for it, so there's gonna be mistakes and errors and trials and all this stuff, right?
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: But I want us to have the biblical perspective that even if there's still hope, like even if I I love, do we realize, guys, that the scripture in Jeremiah, Jeremiah 29, 11, they were taken as slaves to Babylon and they were exiled from Israel, from their country, and the Lord gives this encouraging word of even though this has horrible thing has happened, I am still going to you know fulfill my promise.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still going to have hope and plans for you, even though for 70 years you're going to be slaves and servants to this other people.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: And it was it was their own fault, it's because of their own sin that they got exiled.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: But even in Lamentations, you know, Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet, and he writes Jeremiah, the book of Jeremiah, and he writes the book of Lamentations.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: Lamentations is such a sad book, but Lamentations literally ends with, yeah, I will rejoice in the Lord.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you look at Habakkuk and you look at the last part of Habakkuk and it says, even if these things don't happen, there's no leaves on the tree, and there's no produce, and there's no this, even if all of this horrible stuff happens, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and I will find my hope in him.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I honestly just encourage us with this time period.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, even if all this horrible stuff happens, even if AI takes over jobs, even if whatever, we still have to have hope in the Lord.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like everyone else is going to be hopeless.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I I think this is an opportunity for us as Christians to show them hey, it's not the end of the world for creators.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like God still has a plan for us.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: We might not know what that looks like.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be change, it's gonna be uncomfortable, it's gonna be unfamiliar, but there's still a plan.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: And so I I think that should be our perspective.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: And and I believe as Christians, we need to figure out how to use AI for the glory of God and for doing good in the world.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, sorry to burst your bubble, but it's not just all about you.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: We got some good we gotta do.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like, he literally says, take care of the oppressed, the widows, the orphans.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at you know what Tim Tebow is trying to do with the there's like a new bark phone.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that is a great way to use technology for good.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, so how can we as Christians use what is happening in business as a mom, as a Christian, as a creator, how can we use AI to help spread the gospel, help bring people closer to Jesus, help mature Christians in discipleship?
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: That should be our question.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: Us freaking out about it, taking over our jobs.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, I want to be empathetic about it, but at the same time, I'm like, guys, it's not about us.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: If if we if if we are so consumed with ourselves, we have totally missed the point.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: So that is my encouragement.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: I hope it's encouraging.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: That is my encouragement for today.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's a hard subject to sit with, but I I mean, I just I I think we just gotta put our big boy pants on and we gotta get over ourselves, and we gotta realize that there is good and there is hope.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: And we gotta find the hope.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: And we gotta realize that God still has a plan for us.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I love you guys, and I'll see y'all in the next episode.