AI won’t just respond to us. It will learn us. What we like, what keeps us engaged, and what we return to will shape how it interacts with us. And when AI is built by for-profit systems, the incentive is clear: keep our attention. What shapes our attention eventually shapes our values. And that makes discernment a spiritual issue, not just a technological one.

In a world where machines can produce almost anything instantly, human work will no longer compete on speed or efficiency. It will compete on presence. What a person makes by hand may be slower, more expensive, and less perfect—but it will carry something machines can’t replicate: responsibility. When creation becomes effortless, intention becomes the luxury.

AI won’t create humanity’s crisis of meaning, but it will intensify it. Meaning is inseparable from purpose, and purpose doesn’t come from intelligence or optimization—it comes from God. As AI gets better at answering how to live, it will become easier to avoid asking why we exist at all. And intelligence, detached from reverence and humility, doesn’t resolve that tension. It simply accelerates it.