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Are We Building Human Replacements? · The Slippery Slope

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  Have you seen the latest humanoid robots coming out of
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  China? A tech firm has unveiled life
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  sized, hyper realistic male and female robots designed not for
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  industry, not for medicine, not for dangerous jobs, but for
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  companionship. They recognise emotional states,
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  they mimic human movement and they can be customised to look
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  however you want. And people are lining up to buy
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  them. So today I want to ask a simple
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  question. Why are we building replacements
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  for people? I'm Jay Fallon and this is the
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  Slippery Slope podcast. Get
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  So a Chinese tech company has launched a new humanoid robot, A
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  companion robot. Not a helper, not a tool, a
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  companion. Yeah, It's designed to be
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  emotionally responsive. It's designed to look human.
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  It's designed to act human. And it's being marketed as a
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  long term emotional partner. Now I appreciate AII use AII see
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  its value in medicine, problem solving and innovation.
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  But this, this is something different.
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  This isn't about solving problems, this is about
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  replacing people. You've got to ask yourself, why
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  make them human? Or human Like let's be honest, a
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  robot doesn't need a face to clean your house.
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  It doesn't need soft skin to help in a hospital, it doesn't
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  need emotional recognition to carry out tasks.
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  So why make them human shaped? Why make them lifelike?
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  Why make them attractive? Because the goal isn't utility,
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  it's attachment. We're not building machines to
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  help us. We're building machines to feel
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  like us. And that raises A deeper
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  question. Are we trying to replace
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  relationships? We live in a world where
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  loneliness is skyrocketing, families are fractured, and
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  communities are fading, and people are struggling to
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  connect. And instead of fixing the root
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  problem, instead of rebuilding relationships, we're
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  manufacturing products to numb the pain.
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  We're creating machines to simulate intimacy, machines to
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  simulate companionship, machines to simulate affection, and yes,
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  let's be honest, machines to simulate sexual relationships.
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  Remember I did an episode, I believe it was last year, on the
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  AI robot brothel that was being opened up in Berlin, Germany.
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  This is where we're going. When you create customizable
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  male and female humanoids with realistic bodies, emotional
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  responsiveness, and long term companionship, you're not just
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  replacing conversation, you're replacing intimacy.
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  This isn't progress, this is avoidance.
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  Let's look at it from a spiritual perspective.
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  I kept thinking of this one verse when I was, I was reading
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  about this AI robots phenomenon that's coming on and and
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  watching the video, I kept thinking about this one verse,
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  Jeremiah 17, verse 9. It says the heart is deceitful
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  above all things and desperately wicked.
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  Who can know it? The Bible doesn't say the heart
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  is misguided. It says it's deceitful.
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  It lies to us. And when the human heart designs
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  technology without God, it doesn't create tools, it creates
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  idols. These robots aren't just
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  machines, they're reflections of our deepest fears and desires,
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  loneliness, lust, control, and the desire to avoid the hard
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  work of real relationships. Because real relationships are
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  hard work. Instead of healing the human
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  heart, we're building devices to distract it.
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  Romans 1/22/23 puts it perfectly.
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  Professing to be wise, they become fools and change the
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  glory of the incorruptible God into an image.
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  We call it innovation. We call it progress, but at its
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  core it's the same ancient pattern replacing God's design
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  with human imitation. We're building images.
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  We're building idols, We're building substitutes for what
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  God created us to experience with one another.
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  So here's the trajectory as as I see it.
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  Step one, we build machines to help us.
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  Step 2, we build machines to comfort us.
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  And step three, we build machines to replace us.
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  And and once we start replacing people with machines, we lose
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  something essential. The friction, forgiveness,
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  growth, and vulnerability that makes relationships real.
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  If we keep going down this path, we won't just lose connection,
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  we'll lose humanity. Look, AI is not evil, but human
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  motives can be. Technology always reflects the
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  heart of its creator. Loneliness cannot be solved by
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  machines. Real relationships require
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  friction. They require arguing.
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  They require that buffeting. They require forgiveness.
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  They require growth. Robots often none of that.
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  The real question isn't, can we build this?
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  The actual question I believe is, should we be building this?
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  It's not about fear, it's about discernment.
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  If we keep building machines to replace people, we'll eventually
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  forget how to be human. The problem isn't the robot,
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  it's the heart that designed it. That's why I believe we need
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  truth, we need discernment, and we need God of the Bible now
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  more than ever. As always, this is just my
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  opinion. Please let me know what you
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  think. I'm Jay Fallon and thanks for
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  listening to the Slippery Slope podcast.
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