{"id":21931,"date":"2026-04-21T18:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21931"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:36:19","slug":"surprised-by-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21931","title":{"rendered":"Surprised by A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"C.S Lewis Debunks &quot;Who Created God?&quot;\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_PTwVvpUFdY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I found this video <\/strong>on YouTube. It seems to me both wonderful and troubling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, Jack Lewis is using \u201cmy\u201d microphone. It\u2019s a Blue Yeti, and I have one exactly like it, even unto the color. (Or \u201ccolour,\u201d as he would have spelled it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secondly, it\u2019s pretty well done, except for a couple glitches. The voice appears to be cloned from Lewis\u2019 well-known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Four-Loves-C-S-Lewis-audiobook\/dp\/B0007OB5QM\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HIHNZSBVOBM2&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.KG0cPddRQFst6pP0T_95hkymaNuwxm633SIxrh2-8kXQ6AMV9lTjvcgLAzhEOxruZ0EA2xPDIN95F8pBKkSANJ5Mak0jMcPlotqMn4THWIOlUW-f-_q2vry8bPI8RZo9pYds_iMK8t7Lp18knMBqfqws-S8CA0WZsMPl73IoSFOVXCV1YCtCKqCmWpJFfBpf8nmeOgjsLkTopvDWIjF4xH0rzNXBKjoMYgNxiaaIJjw.5JapmdgpzrKS8X0HpqB_Zxq8x6nQ0CVBRlJJhHWUUm0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+four+loves+audible&amp;qid=1776810526&amp;sprefix=the+four+loves%2Caps%2C301&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\"><em>The Four Loves recordings<\/em><\/a>. (On the downside, I\u2019ve read a statement from one of Lewis\u2019s friends, who says that that was not his normal speaking style.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The troubling aspect is \u2013 of course \u2013 just that this is A.I. I\u2019m almost obligated to hate A.I., which took a much-needed job away from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The very idea of resurrecting actual humans through A.I. is just disturbing to many of us, whether it\u2019s affected our bottom lines or not. It seems creepy, like necromancy. However, I\u2019m not sure that creepy feeling is to be trusted. When radio was a new technology, there was a fair number of sincere Christians who denounced it as demonic \u2013 voices coming through the air; that has to come from the domain of the Prince of the Powers of the Air! (For our young readers, that\u2019s a biblical reference to the devil (<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/kjv\/ephesians\/2.htm\">Ephesians 2:2<\/a> in the King James Version).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the bottom line, for me, is that I found it kind of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d like to see more of this sort of stuff, and no doubt I will. Maybe somebody can recreate Moody preaching, or Jonathan Edwards declaiming \u201cSinners in the Hands of an Angry God\u201d (contemporaries reported that he read it from a manuscript, in a very rote voice).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best thing about A.I. might be that it could kill Hollywood. We can bring back the great actors of the past and cast them in new movies, bypassing Wokeness. I\u2019d love to see a young Clint Eastwood playing Travis McGee, for instance. Authors could have total control of film adaptations. Who wants to do an A.I. production of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Year-Warrior-Skjalgsson-Authors-paperback\/dp\/B0DPV4ZNF7\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XTAPQRJ2QMOX&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.v0IRVR6yNaFU5kkf5kbeafxd8trwOnRi2lJGWvDE7hBPevhV9MAttAyyNHFylIofOpcTiPFHDfJOC6q1fgu5OYdHFj5C4fQxPdK2Oooi6exXbYRNM6xv4K_J9hxywC1HFqTFgJchUooV4Gb4Vn7ObKtrhdv_iBaacnRxhVVfQBnn6zxf1a2KN37ENR0VD7kcP8A0MYlQMGKmAxzWst1HNkmOUNXVa27vInFfi5jpXac.Bh6OXIu2IZC-Lp966NFNZrFdaGvtj-UTLLQLuDVJjU8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+year+of+the+warrior+walker&amp;qid=1776810725&amp;s=audible&amp;sprefix=the+year+of%2Caudible%2C256&amp;sr=1-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">The Year of the Warrior<\/a><\/em> for 50 bucks? I might be able to spring for half of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this video on YouTube. It seems to me both wonderful and troubling. First of all, Jack Lewis is using \u201cmy\u201d microphone. It\u2019s a Blue Yeti, and I have one exactly like it, even unto the color. (Or \u201ccolour,\u201d as he would have spelled it.) Secondly, it\u2019s pretty well done, except for a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surprised by A.I.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10,14,1],"tags":[119,231,5179,5927],"class_list":["post-21931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-nonfiction","category-religion","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-c-s-lewis-2","tag-who-created-god"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21932,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions\/21932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}