{"id":2512,"date":"2023-10-06T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/warning-from-jack-hibbs-artificial-intelligence-poses-risks\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:14:12","slug":"warning-from-jack-hibbs-artificial-intelligence-poses-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/warning-from-jack-hibbs-artificial-intelligence-poses-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning from Jack Hibbs: Artificial Intelligence poses risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline has-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-tools\"><a href=\"#cp-talk\" class=\"has-number talk-cp-255857\" data-scrollto=\".viafoura\" aria-label=\"Go to comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/chat-rect.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><span class=\"number\"\/><\/a><a href=\"\" class=\"js-share\" aria-label=\"Share\" id=\"share-btn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/share-outline.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"760\" height=\"481\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/05\/150573_w_760_481.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/05\/150573_w_760_481.png\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" width=\"760\" height=\"481\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills preaches about demonic deception and artificial intelligence during a recent sermon shared on the church&#8217;s website on May 21, 2023. <\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Screengrab: YouTube\/Real Life with Jack Hibbs <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pastor Jack Hibbs recently warned against demonic deception, saying humans \u201crun the risk of being overtaken\u201d by artificial intelligence, and urged them to use discernment when hearing false teachers and doctrines &#8220;made up by man and demon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In part two of an earlier sermon series titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/calvarycch.org\/what-spirit-lives-in-you-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Spirit Lives in You?,<\/a>&#8221; Hibbs, who serves as pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, said in the May 21 sermon, a clip of which was <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IKe4EqZW_Jg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> on YouTube last Saturday, that artificial intelligence &#8220;is advancing so quickly.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stressing the importance of discernment, Hibbs read <a href=\"https:\/\/bibleportal.com\/verse-topic?v=2+Peter+2%3A1-3&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Peter 2:1-3<\/a>, which states:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them \u2014 bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the reports of technological advances in AI, he added that there has been &#8220;exponential growth in AI information and development that is of great concern.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"God Give Us Discernment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IKe4EqZW_Jg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"tai-video\">Hibbs talked about how Elon Musk, the polarizing high-profile billionaire who announced the creation his own AI company called <a href=\"https:\/\/x.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xAI<\/a>\u00a0in July, has warned about how powerful AI can become.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u201c[Musk] was telling us where [AI] is heading. I got to tell you, I was listening to him talk to Jordan Peterson and I had a hard time believing what he was saying,\u201d Hibbs said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be kidding me. That now AI devices have conspired with one another, and they have created things without human involvement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the CEO\u00a0of Tesla and the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, announced the news of the company after months of discussion surrounding plans to build a rival to ChatGPT \u2014 an AI-powered language model developed by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like text based on context and past conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk announced xAI has a goal to \u201cunderstand the true nature of the universe,&#8221; with Hibbs saying that he thought &#8220;it&#8217;s kind of freaky.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hibbs said that when Elon Musk was asked, &#8220;Can\u2019t you just unplug the thing [AI] and it would die?&#8221; Musk replied that this was &#8220;maybe&#8221; possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like that &#8216;maybe&#8217; part,\u201d Hibbs said. \u201cWhat are we doing? It&#8217;s so bizarre. Our world will reject the existence of God, but it will create a device that now, we run the risk of being overtaken by the device.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Hibbs said engineers worldwide are worried about AI&#8217;s capabilities, with the pastor noting that &#8220;it knows more than you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re not connected to the web. It does math. It does music. It writes books. It can do a song. It can conduct, author &#8230; \u201d Hibbs said. &#8220;It can do it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the great engineers of our world are concerned. They&#8217;re talking about what happens when the first rogue military gets a hold of an AI unit that is able to control satellites and trajectories. And wow, think of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In three years, Hibbs said, there might be no such thing as elections if AI is introduced into the process because the technology &#8220;will create the leaders that it wants.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man has created something that he&#8217;s fearful of,&#8221; Hibbs said, emphasizing that God created man and He is not fearful of man. &#8220;God created man with the ability of choice. Man chose the wrong thing. We are not artificial intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the extension of The Intelligence. But He gave us a free will. And what&#8217;s amazing about that is our free will has to do with will we bow our heart and our lives to God or not? Will we love Him or not?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hibbs referenced <a href=\"https:\/\/bibleportal.com\/verse-topic?v=1+Corinthians+10%3A18-20&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 Corinthians 10:18-20<\/a>, which highlights God\u2019s instruction not to be partakers in idol worship and warns Christians \u201cnot to be participants with demons.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In modern society, he added, Christians often believe that humanity is too smart to become caught up in the idolatry of statues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if an AI thing got possessed by a demonic spirit? If statues can be demonic, if a little carved image can be demonically possessed, what if an AI thing got possessed?\u201d Hibbs asked. \u201cWhat if an AI thing started saying and doing things? You say, \u2018That will never happen.\u2019 Ah, you have to talk to Elon Musk. Pretty weird, isn\u2019t it? God says, \u2018Watch out: Idols.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hibbs said it\u2019s important for Christians to discern between the spirit of truth and the demonic spirit of error, particularly as AI becomes more advanced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;ve got to admit these are very, very dangerous, destructive, challenging times. And so, spiritually speaking, we&#8217;re at a time now when Jesus said in the last days before He comes back, there&#8217;s going to be deception so great that \u2026 if it were possible, it would deceive even His very elect,\u201d Hibbs added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t say this to scare you; I say this to prepare you. There is a level of deception coming both in and out of the Church that is going to rock the world. It has to. God promised it would come. It would be an indicator of the last days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hibbs warned when it comes to AI, \u201cwe are now starting to see things come to pass where you don&#8217;t know if what you&#8217;re looking at is true or not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can&#8217;t even tell anymore if that person&#8217;s voice is assigned to the actual individual. Is that really Billy Graham&#8217;s voice or is that really this actor\u2019s voice or that singer\u2019s voice? Or is it artificial intelligence? How are you going to know truth from error?\u201d Hibbs asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stressing the need for discernment among believers, Hibbs implored his congregation to, &#8220;more than ever, read the Bible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pray to God. Stop listening to what people are saying. Judge everything you hear against the Bible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why we are here. That&#8217;s why we want you to study the Word of God,\u201d Hibbs said. &#8220;There&#8217;s only one way. Truly, one way. The Spirit of God will tell you based upon the Word of God. And there is a collective attack to try to get you off course. Don&#8217;t buy it. Don&#8217;t dial your compass into something else that&#8217;s going to lead you astray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p><em>Nicole Alcindor is a reporter for The Christian Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"eoa_freedom_post\">\n<h2><span>Free<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Join thousands of others to get the <strong>FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/jack-hibbs-warns-against-artificial-intelligence.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills preaches about demonic deception and artificial intelligence during a recent sermon shared on the church&#8217;s website on May 21, 2023. | Screengrab: YouTube\/Real Life with Jack Hibbs Pastor Jack Hibbs recently warned against demonic deception, saying humans \u201crun the risk of being overtaken\u201d by artificial intelligence, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}