The recent, well-publicized freak outs of some generative AI products has our panel wondering what happens when chatbots become so lifelike that we start to trust them.

That's an especially interesting question when those same AI models still reflect (or even multiply) the biases of the content used to train them. Pastors Sam Barnhart and Kevin Dixon join therapist Dave Verhaagen to look at the psychological and faith implications of forming trust relationships with non-human chat buddies.

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