AI Is the New Tower of Babel (And Its Builders Know It)

The new Tower of Babel, and its builders are becoming like gods to us. The bigger threat isn't killer robots; it's how much of your own mind you've already handed over.

I joined Mike Slater on Politics By Faith (The First) to talk about AI, faith, and the people building it.

We cover: why Babel is always the city AND the tower, how the same AI that discovers drugs can build super viruses, what I'm seeing in my own classroom as term begins, why cognitive offloading scares me more than Terminators, and the one thing AI still can't do without us.

AI belongs in your hands as a thinking partner, never the primary creator.

Chapters:

00:00 Mike Slater introduces Brian Keating (cosmologist, not cosmetologist)

00:37 Why AI is the Tower of Babel — the city and the tower

02:05 The double-edged sword: new drugs vs. super viruses

02:57 Altman, Amodei, Musk — "they become like gods to us"

03:42 "Regulate us, take us over" — who really wants that

04:23 A scientist weighs progress: "I'm an accelerationist"

05:19 AI as a curiosity amplifier, not a shortcut