AI can write, translate, and converse. But three things cannot be generated: work as calling, relationships as presence, and wisdom forged through suffering. This essay asks not whether AI is useful, but what it quietly replaces—and what an honest faith demands in response.
Is AI really just a neutral tool? Using Kuyper's "structure and direction" framework, this article argues that AI's structure is good, but its direction can be pulled toward idolatry. The call is not to flee or embrace, but to discern.
In December 2025, TIME named "The Architects of AI" its Person of the Year. What are these tech titans promising? Liberation, abundance, a new era. But when everyone speaks the same language and builds the same tower toward heaven, it's hard not to think of Babel.
