R. Lucas Stamps has a timely warning here on AI (artificial intelligence) and how it will potentially “stamp” out our humanity. He cautions that “If we allow AI to organize and develop our ideas, we’ll lose the ability to be thinking human beings.”

Stamos warns of an emerging, real problem in academia writing, “At one faculty training on the use of AI last year, a colleague reported some early returns on faculty’s ability to manually detect AI: it was a 50/50 ball, to use a sports analogy. You were as likely to be wrong in your assessment as right, making any kind of punitive action for academic dishonesty difficult to administer.” He is insightful alerting that, “If students outsource the early stages of the learning process to a robot, they will be less likely to develop the skills they need for the later stages.”

The smart ones will heed him. The foolish ones will ignore him and charge headlong into the abyss, defacing their imago dei.