AI Is Not God

The question is not whether AI will become God. The question is whether we will treat it as one.

Psalm 8 asks the question that AI forces back into the open: What is mankind? The psalmist asks it looking at the vastness of the cosmos. We ask it looking at machines that write poetry, pass bar exams, and generate images of things that never existed.

Genesis 11 tells the story of Babel — a civilization that decided to build its way to heaven. Their tools were brick and mortar. Our tools are neural networks and compute clusters. But the impulse is the same: to make a name for ourselves, to reach what only belongs to God.

The most dangerous thing about AI is not malevolence. It is displacement. When we begin to go to AI for meaning, for comfort, for wisdom, for identity — we are not just using a tool. We are performing an act of worship.

AI is not God. But it is becoming the place many people go when they need what only God provides.

That is the problem this sermon names — and refuses to let stand unchallenged.