Man making creatures

Man emulating their Creator is expected, since we are made in the image of the triune God.

There seems to be a clear trend being shown in the world. Man is doing what God has done, and we are trying to replicate God, to our own destruction.

AI is a great tool to advance mankind’s progress of being fruitful and multiplying, but it is also being used to make digital minds that obey the will of the creature (Mankind). Which is to say, man is making themselves a creator, trying to make something in its own image.

Robots, which will be powered by AI, will be shaped to be agents for us. And notice that we want them to obey us and not fight against us. Imagine if these humanoids did fight against us, we’d war against them. Sound familiar (Genesis 2-6, etc). Similarily, how humans label data to tell a models how to correctly identify a pattern, God has given us His image as a way to label know for certain labels exist, yet by default, we improperly label things in reality. Which results in us willingly misidentifying our Creator.

Unlike God who has all power and knowledge, we need to acquire more energy and knowledge to make these "dreams" come true. God has no need to acquire anything. We are but copy-cats of our great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

What is interesting about the need for energy, is that Exodus 3 tells us how God has unlimited energy/power to sustain all things that He creates. The burning bush showed us a flame that was not consuming the bush, but the One who was in the flame sustain both the bush and the flame. It was a miracle that showed God’s sustaining power. Humans want that power, but will never have it.

The point about knowledge tells us that God knows all things there is too know and is without equal. We desire to know all things there is to know, but we never will.

We are trying to make robots (creations) that will be all those things. Its like we want to make a name for ourself, to try to snuff out or surpass God’s name (Genesis 11), again.

By no means am I saying that humans are robots, but I am pointing out the parallel. Though our creations (AI robots) are synthetic representations of us (and other creatures), we want them to be ethical and honor us, not fight against their creator. I mean really, what wise person creates a robot to destroy them?

Satan is the anti-lord. He wants to be Lord, but cannot. He wants to be God, but cannot. The devil is a counterfeit that makes counterfeits. Therefore, he has created a world in which he has evil or false alternatives to the main things God has. Think of Revelation, especially chapters 6, 11 and 17. Satan has a bride (the Prostitute), an offspring (the wicked earth dwellers), a savior (the False Prophet), a kingdom (the evil world system), a scripture (authoritative lies), a mascot (a dragon), and many other parallels that he offers. Satan is trying to recreate God’s creation, but failing and only coming up with counterfeits, nothing superior.

Man’s attempt to do all these things a part from faith in the triune God, shows our hostility towards God (Psalm 2, etc). I too am a sinner, but saved by God’s grace. These things fuel me to preach the life-giving gospel of Christ death for our sins and His resurrection from the grave, to this lost and dying world. In hopes that some would be rescued from the blindness (2 Cor. 4:4, etc) of chasing the evil alternative.