Category: Technology & Science

May 17, 2023
Cultivating Good Conversations about Screen Issues

Personal technology is something that most parents did not have when they were children and it can be difficult to navigate. Dr Jenny Brown highlights how personal connection is more effective than any protective app.

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February 22, 2023
Who Needs Church When We've Got AI Jesus?

How will church adapt as society encompasses technological advances such as artificial intelligence? "A new app that lets you chat with as many as 20,000 notable people from the past is the latest AI offering to come out of the tech sphere. From legendary American baseball player Babe Ruth to US President Abraham Lincoln, Historical […]

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February 22, 2023
ChatGPT and the Apocalypse

A thought provoking piece considering a technological development that affects us all... "The world of AI is here, and vistas of immense and exciting possibility lie before us. That much is certain.  But I must admit, my initial amazement at first encountering ChatGPT quickly gave way to unease and a sense that something essential could […]

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March 21, 2022
How do we read?

In our world of screen technology, retired educator, Susan Harris, notes how reading books helps us "develop a more reflective and deeper understanding of life". A recent article in the magazine section of the Weekend Australian, February 5-6, 2022, titled ‘Book Smart’ highlighted the issue of how we read in this technological age. The author, […]

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July 12, 2021
Better than Us

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence In the 2020 lockdown we may have binged on Netflix sci-fi movies and series about AI, but how far away are we from creating real human-like intelligence? What is the impact of AI on our workplaces, our society, our country as a whole? What are the implications for our ethics, […]

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May 11, 2021
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

The question of how Artificial Intelligence will impact our employment prospects in the near future is an ongoing discussion. Vishal Marria proposes that A.I will change our world further in the future and strategies must be embraced which work synergistically with human intelligence. "Smart technologies aren’t just changing our homes; they’re edging their way into […]

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May 11, 2021
Artificial intelligence in Psychology: 5 Revolutionary Examples

Explore the role Artificial Intelligence might play in psychology. Jeremy Sutton, Ph.D. surveys 5 examples of A.I in psychology at Positive Psychology. "The first chatbot, ELIZA, was created by MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum as long ago as 1966. Named after Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, this early conversational software imitated a psychotherapist..." Source: https://positivepsychology.com/artificial-intelligence-in-psychology/

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May 10, 2021
AI And The Future Of Work

Whether A.I will be positive or negative for human employment is a hot-button issue. This article posits the opportunities created by A.I will offset the loss of jobs caused by its introduction into the workplace

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May 10, 2021
Oxford mathematician John Lennox on AI, science and religion

Meredith Lake conducts a fascinating interview with Professor John Lennox on A.I as it seemingly moves from Science Fiction to reality!  A fascinating public interview about his book, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the future of humanity. 

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May 10, 2021
The potential of Brain-Machine Interface technology has Silicon Valley excited, and ethicists worried

There are exciting developments in Brain-Machine interfacing but the ethicists are playing catch up ball to work out the moral ground rules. This is a compelling article exploring A.I potential sometimes crossing over into the world of transhumanism 

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May 10, 2021
Should Christians trust scientific experts?

Josh Reeves offers wisdom to Christians about how to approach the findings of our scientific community today. "The issue of expertise lurks underneath the surface of most discussions around Christianity and science. Christians separate into different camps about the proper role for scientific experts or, more fundamentally, whether experts can be trusted..."

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May 10, 2021
Science increasingly makes the case for God

'The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone? In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the […]

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