What happens when AI promises not just to help us work but to help us become the selves we most want to be?
That question runs through this episode with Rachel Gilson, director of theological development and culture for Cru and the author of Born Again This Way and Parenting Without Panic in an LGBT-Affirming World. In our conversation, she brings unusual clarity to the question of work in the age of AI: not simply what these tools can do but what they may be doing to our integrity, our vocation, and our sense of ourselves.
We talk about writing, voice, and the temptation to present work that isn’t really ours as though it were. AI may be able to write, but it cannot witness. It cannot speak from a life, a body, a history, or a situated perspective. That is why this episode isn’t a simple rejection of AI but a careful exercise in discernment: learning where these tools may genuinely help, and where they risk hollowing out the human work God has given us to do.
We also explore desire, embodiment, personhood, and the difference between using a tool and being quietly deformed by it. Rachel joined me on Silicon Spiritualities to ask how Christians can work faithfully in the age of AI and how the Scriptures help us hold together honesty, community, embodiment, and hope.
Resources Mentioned:
- Born Again This Way by Rachel Gilson
- Parenting Without Panic in an LGBT-Affirming World by Rachel Gilson
- Biblical Critical Theory by Christopher Watkin
- Entering into Rest by Oliver O’Donovan
- The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
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