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April 11, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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AI’s Soulless Secret Unveils Meaning of “Image of God” and the Dignity of Humans
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This is the article that I had talked about, and it's written by Ellen Hayes.
And I think it's an excellent article.
How AI proves our need for God.
Artificial intelligence, she says, is impressive.
It's creepy impressive.
It can write a term paper in 30 seconds.
It can design your dream kitchen.
It can replicate the greatest artwork in history in a blink.
And, of course, it can animate it and make it move and talk and all the rest of the stuff, right?
It's moving fast and it's getting smarter and depending on who you ask, it might one day replace everything from customer service reps to your therapist.
We've all heard all this stuff.
However, there's some things that it can't do.
She says.
It can't fall in love.
It can't feel awe.
It can't choose to forgive.
It can't stare at the stars and ask, why me?
It doesn't want anything.
And it doesn't care.
And that's the point.
See, all those things are the things that make us human.
And even though they can fake falling in love or obsession or things like that, we saw that from the very beginning.
Why don't you ditch your wife and come with me and that type of stuff.
We saw that put out in the movie Her that had Joaquin Phoenix in it.
And Ray Kurzweil really liked that because it kind of humanized AI and that type of thing.
No, it's nonsense.
It's science fiction.
It can imitate that.
It can look at scripts and books and things like that and it can imitate things, but it's not real.
It's not real.
It is a lie.
She said, she referenced a book that was written by Brian Trilley and he was a co-author in it.
The book is called Soulless Intelligence.
How AI proves that we need God.
AI isn't going to become sentient.
It isn't going to wake up.
And the fact that it can't, that gap between what it can do and what it will never be is exactly where we see the evidence of God.
And I think this is what's going to clarify what humans being made in the image of God is really about.
It's going to clarify what it means to be human.
And the guy who wrote this book is
who he and his brother, Greg, have
years working in the field in machine learning and computer vision.
They've built AI tools.
They've run top tier training programs.
They've seen firsthand how powerful the technology can be and how it works.
Somewhere along the line, however, Brian started asking the kind of questions that Silicon Valley doesn't like to answer.
When I interviewed Zoltan Isvan of the Transhumanist Party, that's exactly what I asked him.
I said, so you're going to transfer yourself into a machine at some point in the future, right?
You're going to become a cyborg.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to do that.
Okay, what are you?
What is it that you're transferring into that machine?
He couldn't answer it.
This person says people like Ray Kurzweil and Sam Altman genuinely believe that we'll be able to upload our minds to machines and live forever.
They think we're just patterns of information.
But if that were true, and listen to this, we wouldn't see things like terminal lucidity.
What do they mean by that?
They mean dying Alzheimer's patients who suddenly become lucid right before death.
How did that happen?
I mean, if we're all just mechanical things and the mechanical stuff is breaking because of Alzheimer's, you've got these things clogging your brain and you can't think, well, then, of course, you should not be able to somehow recover that right before death.
Or you've got people who have only 5% of a brain who score above average on IQ tests.
Remember that young child who was born like almost all the back of the head was missing?
Or similar things, where we have slime moles doing advanced math without a nervous system.
Though, if you think the brain is the only thing that makes us us, you've got a lot of explaining to do, she said.
Brian says, the guy who wrote the book, he says there's something more.
There's part of us that no machine can replicate.
Something that is immaterial.
Something that is eternal.
Something like a soul.
He says AI is helping us to see what makes us human by failing to be human.
For all of its logic, for all of its speed, for all of its ability to mimic thought, it still can't choose to be kind.
It can't desire goodness.
It can't cry when a friend dies or get goosebumps from a song or fall to its knees in gratitude.
And it never will.
Think about that.
That's what it is to be uniquely human.
Animals don't do that.
AI doesn't do that.
And think about the fact that if that's what it means to be in the image of God, that's what God's like.
He says it's not just a philosophical point, it's a spiritual one.
We try to recreate ourselves in silicon, and it becomes more obvious That we are not just brains in meat suits.
We are image bearers of God.
And the image of God includes free will, moral agency, a hunger for beauty and truth and justice.
And these things don't run on code.
AI will never set its own goals.
It doesn't have desires.
It doesn't have a will.
You can lock it in a digital cage and it won't care.
But a human in solitary confinement?
That's torture.
Why? Because we're in the image of God, which means that we want connection.
We want meaning.
Transcendence. That is your soul that is talking.
We're not just looking at an ethical dilemma here.
We're looking at a worldview divide.
Either we are programmable machines, brains in a meat suit, Or we are sacred beings.
Either way, the value comes from what we can do, or it's rooted in something that is much deeper, something that is uncopyable.
And folks, you know, when we look at people like B.F. Skinner, talking about beyond freedom and dignity, these people are constantly pushing us to just say that we're nothing other than animals.
But this person says, Brian, who wrote the book, It says, if you define a person by intelligence or by consciousness, and these are things that exist on a spectrum, then you're saying that some lives matter less than others.
This is how we get to the position of abortion.
This is how we get to the position of euthanasia.
We say some lives are more valuable than others because we're looking at things that are on a spectrum.
So we're going to make an arbitrary decision at some point that, no, you don't matter.
And we've even seen so-called ethicists.
What was his name?
Peter something.
I just thought about this.
Who suggested that maybe we abort kids up to the age of two or three.
Because they're still really not human because they haven't reached a certain intellectual capability.
And people are saying, what are you talking about?
You see, that's where it ultimately leads.
That kind of thinking.
If somebody doesn't have sufficient Intellectual capacity, then let's just kill them.
Not allow them to be born in the first place.
And this is why Christians oppose abortion.
Because if you believe that every person has a soul, then every person has unshakable worth.
It's not about our abilities.
It's not about our consciousness.
It's not about our mental capacity.
It's not about whether or not we have a handicap.
It's not about any of that stuff.
He says, that's not just theology, that's the foundation of human rights.
You see, if you throw away that Christian foundation that we are souls created by God, that's why that's in that first part of the Declaration of Independence.
People who are atheists need to understand this.
You know, we are created with certain inalienable rights.
So we're created.
And we have those rights because we're created in the image of God.
And so it's also why AI cannot be the moral compass for our future.
It doesn't have a compass.
It's just an objective function.
Human dignity doesn't come from capability.
It comes from being made in the image of someone greater.
And that's why B.F. Skinner, when he talks about being beyond freedom and dignity, Okay.
And your animal nature, and he is very effective at this, and again, B.F. Skinner is beyond freedom and dignity, and that's what Karen came home with when she was getting her master's degree in education.
I said, well, that's chilling to see that that's the way that the government and the government schools view.
Young children as beyond freedom and dignity.
They view them as dogs or dolphins or carrier pigeons to be trained.
And of course you can manipulate people, those positive and negative operant conditioning.
You can do that because you can manipulate the physical side of us, the animal side of us that is not the soul.
The soul can basically just be passive and not involved.
You can control people like animals.
Genesis said that God breathed life into Adam's nostrils, and that's the difference.
It wasn't code.
It wasn't logic.
It was a breath.
It was spirit.
It was soul.
And that is what AI is missing in a world racing to replace humanity with smarter, faster machines.
We need something to remind us why we matter in the first place.
We matter not because we're useful.
We matter not because we're efficient.
We matter because we're humans, created in the image of God.
And no machine, no matter how advanced, will ever be that.
The common man.
They created common core that dumbed down our children.
They created common past to track and control us.
Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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