Category: Blog
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Situational Awareness of Artificial Intelligence – a Military Perspective
Today is the Fourth of July and the United States celebrates itself as the beacon of freedom and democracy in the world. Leopold Aschenbrenner originally hails from Germany and now lives in San Francisco, California. His “aspiration is to secure the blessings of liberty for our posterity.” To that end he wrote a series of…
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Situational Awareness of Artificial Intelligence – a Theological Perspective
I am a theologian and an army officer. Of course, I need to read up on AI. Until recently, I have been a casual user of Microsoft’s version of ChatGPT. It comes in handy when I want to refine my writing or create images for blogposts. But AI isn’t just fun and games: Leopold Aschenbrenner…
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Declare Independence from the Filibuster
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed Declaration of Independence Every Fourth, I post a brief reflection on how the Declaration speaks into current events. This year, I am guided by “the consent of the governed.” In recent years, the Supreme Court has practically set law by…
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American Gun Violence is a product of willful ignorance
19 elementary students, two teachers, one 18-year-old, and one grandma – all dead in Texas, just hours after I flew with my three kids and wife out of Houston. Everybody has an opinion on how and why this happened. They raise topics like gun control, mental health, school security and what not. The bottom line…
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How are you doing, Pastor?
I wrote another piece for the United Church of Christ’s Center for Analytics, Research & Development, and Data (CARDD) Blog. The simple, well-intended question “How are you doing, pastor?” needs a lot of parsing. Hopefully, this more detailed look at what clergy persons are dealing with can be helpful for congregations, pastor relations committees, church councils, committees…