The image of God in the age of AI (w/Tomer Perisco) - Sponsored Content

The idea that human beings are created in the image of God is a central part of both Jewish and Christian theology, and with the rise of AI it has become perhaps the best example of how ancient religious wisdom can regulate modern technology by reminding us of what we value most of all. If human beings are created in the image of God—if we have something in us that separates us from animals—then we have an idea to rally around, a way to articulate that humanity’s special status needs to be preserved at all cost.

The problem is, this theological idea is a lot more unstable than we’d like to admit. I talk to Tomer Persico, research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and author of In God’s Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea.

About Belief in the Future: Technology and religion sometimes seem like oil and water, but they’ve been crossing paths for centuries and aren’t going to stop. Hosted by DZ Kalman, Belief in the Future is a production of Sinai and Synapses. It was made with support from Templeton World Charity Foundation.

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