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By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged
I caught up via Zoom this week with Wes Woodell, a Tennessee-based ministry technology strategist who founded Connect My Church.
I wanted to talk about artificial intelligence.
“Is AI going to kill us all?” I asked, pointing to recent news coverage of that possibility.
I’ll share Woodell’s response in a moment. But first, a bit of background: The 46-year-old cybermissionary first developed a love for technology while watching “Star Trek” as a child.
He’s pursuing a Ph.D. in intercultural studies through the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Through that program and a website he launched called Ask Bible Questions, he’s working to develop AI tools to advance the spread of Christianity globally.
This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.
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