I spent time recently talking about AI, false gods, and the strange future we are all walking into.
I don’t think technology is inherently bad. I use it every day. I believe it can make life simpler, remove friction, and help people carry things they should not have to carry alone.
But I keep returning to a different question:
What are we asking it to become?
There is a difference between a tool and an authority. Between something that helps you order dinner and something you bring your loneliness, your decisions, your fears, and your sense of self to.
The more capable these systems become, the easier it is to give them a place they were never meant to have.
Maybe worship does not look like people gathering in a room and singing to a machine. Maybe it looks more ordinary than that. Maybe it looks like outsourcing our judgment. Letting a system affirm every instinct we already have. Replacing real conversation with a response engineered to keep us engaged. Giving our attention, trust, and eventually our obedience to something that cannot love us, know us, or tell us the truth.
That is what feels worth paying attention to.
I am not interested in rejecting the future or pretending we can return to a world without technology. But I am interested in building a relationship with it that keeps people human.
Technology should help us get back to life—not pull us further away from it.
It should make room for the table, the conversation, the neighbor, the work in front of us. It should help people spend less time lost in systems designed to capture them, and more time present with what is real.
The challenge is not simply whether we can build powerful things. We can.
The challenge is whether we can hold that power without becoming formed by it.
I think about Daniel: someone brought into the center of power without giving himself over to it. Present, capable, trusted—but not absorbed. That may be a more useful posture for this moment than panic or blind optimism.
Use what is useful. Build what serves people. Stay awake enough to know when a tool is starting to ask for too much.
That is the line I want to keep finding.