Cursed Blessing: The Biblical Case for Hard Work in the Age of AI

About this episode

The episode discusses the negative impact of AI on men's work ethic and the importance of embracing hard work.

Artificial intelligence is making a lot of men quietly stupider. Not because the tools are bad, but because of the lie men are telling themselves about why they're using them. If your hope is that AI will finally let you stop thinking, stop feeling, stop wrestling with the creative struggle of real work, you've already started in the wrong place. You're not stewarding a tool. You're making peace with sloth and calling it innovation. The deeper problem is a sub-biblical view of work itself. Wo...

People in this episode

Host: Seth Troutt

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• hard work
• masculinity
• creativity
• work ethic
• sloth

Keywords

• AI
• work
• masculinity
• creativity
• sloth
• innovation
• biblical view

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