The Christian Post's top 10 news stories of 2025 (part 2)
5. Christian Post hosts an event about artificial intelligence
During an Oct. 7 event at Colorado Christian University titled "AI for Humanity: Navigating Ethics and Morality for a Flourishing Future", which drew more than 1,000 people in-person and online, The Christian Post tackled the role Christians ought to play in using burgeoning AI technology for good as it reshapes civilization.
Pat Gelsinger, an Evangelical Christian who formerly served as the CEO of Intel and was one of the keynote speakers at the event, likened the advent of AI to the invention of the printing press more than five centuries ago.
Gelsinger, who led Intel from 2021 to 2024 and now serves as executive chair and head of technology at the pro-faith technology platform Gloo, argued that technology is neutral. He urged his listeners to harness AI for the Kingdom of God, in the same way Christians used the printing press technology in a way that unleashed the Protestant Reformation.
"It's neither good nor bad," Gelsinger said of new technology. "It's how we shape it, how we use it, how we form it. And we, as the Christian community, we as believers, will we be shaping technology as a force for good? Are we going to show up to be bending the arc of technology for good?"
Gelsinger, who helped design a significant Intel microprocessor and played a leading role in developing USB and Wi-Fi technology, expressed optimism that God will use AI technology to fulfill His purposes, just as He used other great inventions throughout history.
"When Christ was on the Earth, the greatest technology was the Roman roads," he said, observing that the Roman Empire's efficient highway system played a pivotal role in promoting the Gospel throughout the civilized world at the time.
He challenged Christians to embrace AI's potential to eliminate global poverty, educate every child on the planet and break down language barriers that have existed since the Tower of Babel by reaching the 300 million children living in extreme poverty and teaching them in their native languages.
Dr. Richard Land, executive editor of The Christian Post and president emeritus of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, echoed Gelsinger in his assessment of AI’s seismic potential, which he warned could be used for both good and evil.
Land said new technology is often double-edged, noting that while the printing press allowed Christians to unearth the teachings of the early church, it also allowed for the resurgence of the pagan Greco-Roman philosophy that led to the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and ultimately drenched Europe in the blood of the Napoleonic Wars. He contrasted the French Revolution with the American Revolution, which he said emphasized Reformation principles.
"It's a modern Tower of Babel: we're going to build our way back to Heaven," he said of mankind's common attitude toward his own technological achievements. "And that struggle went on, and it's continuing to go on. And now the next chapter is AI. We must be engaged. Otherwise, we will find it dehumanizing us, dehumanizing human beings all across the globe."
"We will be losing the battle of the machine, the soulless machine, unless all of us stand up and proclaim the unique value of every single human being, because we are created in the image of God, and we are better than machines," Land added.
Jon Brown contributed to the report
