Volume 45 Issue Ten October 2026
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“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” I Cor. 14:8
The Dark Side Of AI
“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.” - Romans 13:12
Most technology is morally neutral. From major innovations such as the printing press, radio, television, and the internet, we have seen that these devices can be used for good or evil. At their core, these are merely a means of transmitting information from the source to the recipient. Now we live in the age of artificial intelligence, and, like other major innovations that came before, AI can be used in ways that are both helpful and harmful.
Using ChatGPT to generate cartoon images of yourself and family members isn’t likely to cause much harm, and AI can help people who struggle with math or grammar. But the technology is notoriously unreliable. On the one hand, 23-year-old Liam Price used the pro version of ChatGPT to solve a math problem that had stumped mathematicians for sixty years. (1) On the other hand, a video posted on YouTube records ChatGPT advising a user to walk to a carwash instead of driving because it was a pleasant day. “You’ll walk back with a sparkling car and maybe a little extra pep in your step,” the bot said. (2) At times, the technology seems brilliant; at others, it appears woefully incompetent. James 1:8 warns, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” The same holds true for artificial intelligence.
Chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini were trained on massive amounts of information generated by human beings. They absorbed content from the internet and books at a pace beyond human capability, but their sources of information reflect the human experience for better or worse. It stands to reason that AI in the hands of evil people will be used for evil deeds. And artificial intelligence models developed by evil men and women will reflect that evil. Jeremiah 17:9 tells us something important about the nature of man. This verse warns, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Desperately wicked men will make desperately wicked AI.
We must remember that artificial intelligence is not a single monolithic thing. Thousands of AI tools and models exist today, and more are emerging as the market continues to expand and more companies seek to capitalize on what has become a digital gold rush. A website called There’s an AI For That lists 53,859 AI tools from over 9,000 companies in 114 countries, as of this writing. (3) This website is just one directory. There are many other forms of AI not included in this count.
Even if you built a benevolent AI with a strong moral imperative whose sole mission is to enhance the human experience, there would still be thousands of other AI entities, some of which reflect the bad intentions of their designers. Some could be used to aid an authoritarian government in administering a surveillance state. Others could excel at impersonating real individuals and be used to commit fraud and identity theft. An AI could be used to generate pornographic images, sometimes based on real individuals, without the consent of the person being mimicked. AI could be used to design biological weapons and viruses, and it could hack into computer systems and digital infrastructure with far greater efficiency than any person. Some of these things are already happening. As we watch this technology progress, it is evident that there is a dark side of AI.
