Book Review of "Made in Our Image" - Stephen Driscoll
Talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and I break out in a cold sweat with images of 2001: A Space Odyssey flashing before my mind’s eye, mixed with dismal scenes from the 1982 version of Blade Runner ! It’s totus tenebrae (total gloom) for me, baby! Honestly, to be a Boomer has its issues. But Stephen Driscoll, author, partner with Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students, husband and father has gently addressed my concerns, and more, in his 192-page paperback “ Made in Our Image: God, ArtificialIntelligence and You .” In a nutshell, this useful and readable manuscript presents a biblical way for Christians to think about AI. And he does it without falling into the traps of either technological frenzy or forlornness. Rather, he walks a realistic line that clearly sees pros and cons. Driscoll’s main aim in the book is to “zoom out to 40,000 feet to help us see how God’s big picture of reality – seen specifically through the lenses of creation, sin, the cross a...