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When Presence Is Part of the Work

AI can improve the work we give other people. A conversation with my son made me wonder what happens when the result gets better, but the person behind it feels farther away.

Alina Leo
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The Human in the Loop Is Not Enough

AI can now do the work and wait for someone to click approve. But being present is not the same as exercising judgment.

Alina Leo

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AI at the Kitchen Table

Most of a family's decisions about AI never feel like decisions. They happen when someone is tired, stuck, or lonely, and the habit is formed before anyone notices.

Alina Leo

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The AI That Always Agrees With You

It's ten o'clock, the argument is still replaying, and the most patient listener you've ever had is glad to hear the whole story. Two new studies suggest we should think harder about what we're asking it for.

Alina Leo

· 6 min read

Can AI Create?

AI can hand you a poem that never existed. Whether that makes it a creator, and what it does to our own creating, are the harder questions

Alina Leo

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The Heart Behind the Prompt

Policies can tell me what I'm allowed to do with AI. They can't tell me why I reached for it. That question belongs to the heart, and Scripture has been asking it far longer than we have had these tools.

Alina Leo

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Six Questions for Christians in the Age of AI

AI will keep changing faster than the rules can follow. Six questions drawn from Philippians 4:8 can help you decide what to receive, what to limit, and what to refuse, no matter what the tools become.

John D. Delano, Ph.D.