Todd Korpi – AI Goes to Church

AI presents some profound challenges and extraordinary opportunities for the church.

Brent talks with Todd Korpi the author of a new IVP book called ‘AI Goes to Church: Pastoral Wisdom for Artificial Intelligence’.

Todd is a pastor, missiologist, and church consultant.  He’s dean of digital ministry programs at Ascent College, assistant professor of Christian leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary and works in severall capacities at OneHope.  He also serves as the lead researcher of the Digital Mission Consortia, a collaborative research initiative exploring the frontier of digital ministry.    

• (1:15) The church and AI;
• (4:15) Why do we need to participate in the AI conversation?
• (5:10) What is AI?
• (6:20) What is super AI?
• (8:05) Star Trek;
• (9:55) Sentient AI?
• (10:55) Scripture and technology;
• (11:30) AI in ministry;
• (18:00) AI and sermon planning;
• (21:00) AI and mission;
• (23:20) AI clergy?
• (26:00) AI in higher education.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.toddkorpi.com

www.amazon.com/AI-Goes-Church-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1514011247

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