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  • The Confessions, the Comforter, and ChatGPT

    The Confessions, the Comforter, and ChatGPT

    Christianity Today,

    Even before the extraordinary potential of AI became apparent with the launch of ChatGPT four years ago, a wide range of evangelical thinkers and authors—many of whose children who had never known a world without the iPhone—were writing books about how phones, screens and social media were undermining basic Christian goods and what we should all be doing about it. Every time we read an autobiography that blends personal narrative, self-criticism, and reflection on the human condition—as all the best ones do—we are indebted to this life story in the form of a prayer, and to the astonishing North African theologian who wrote it (to say nothing of his remarkable mother Monica). “Let me die, to keep me from dying.” “You change your works but you do not change your plan.” “These people judged by the standard of human time and measured the customs of the whole human race by the portion of custom that happened to be their own.” “Everywhere, greater joy is preceded by greater trouble.” “Grant what you command, and command what you wish.” I could go on—and that is without mentioning the extended musings on the nature of creation, time, sin, and grace, and the famous narrative set pieces that all readers remember, from his theft of the pears in an Algerian orchard to his conversion to Christ in a Milanese garden.