The Singularity Saints Podcast

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May 15, 2019014: Technology and Warfare, PT 1
How will the emergence of new technologies change the face of warfare? How will conflicts play out in the future? In this episode we discuss select technology in development for the battlefield, separating some fact from fiction, and considering the risks. This is part 1 of 2.
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Topics:
Changes in warfare
Asymmetrical warfare
Exoskeletons:
Hype and reality
Termination of development programs
Fort Drum: ExoSkeleton Testing
https://www.army.mil/article/214540/exoskeleton_event_brings_teams_together_to_advance_exoskeleton_technologyDr.
Mellissa Flag –Director Army Research Laboratory, Women in Defense Conference
https://exoskeletonreport.com/2019/02/following-the-u-s-military-exoskeleton-trends-is-it-going-anywhere/
Laser weapons
Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin CEO, and laser development
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/future-weapons-lockheed-martin-pitches-new-war-tech-to-pentagon.html
Air Force SHiELD program
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a27376996/fighter-jet-laser/
Uses of lasers in combat
Artificial Intelligence and Warfare
AI and combing through data
An AI arms race?
AI and training
Ai and Cybersecurity
Autonomous Warfare
https://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/emerging-military-and-security-technologies/autonomy-weapon-systemse
Hypersonic flight
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/hypersonic-flight-technology-passes-a-hugely-significant-milestone.html
AI and OODA Loop
AI, politics, and social stability
Predictability and AI risk
AI and Nuclear Risk
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk: Euro-Atlantic Perspectives.
https://www.sipri.org/news/2019/artificial-intelligence-strategic-stability-and-nuclear-risk-euro-atlantic-perspectives-new-sipri
MAD Nuclear Doctrine and Destabilization with AI
Human Augmentation
Genetic Alteration
Nanotechnology
Joachim Schummer, Department of Philosophy, University of Darmstadt
http://www.joachimschummer.net/papers/2008_Nano-NBIC-Convergence_Maasen-et-al.pdf
National Science Foundation report of societal application of nanotech
Ideal human expectation and military ideals
DARPA and Human augmentation
Technology empowering asymmetrical warfare
Peter Singer, a leading expert on the changing character of conflict
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-will-face-more-deadlier-harder-to-defeat-insurgents-in-future-2019-5?amp%3Butm_medium=referral
https://d1y8sb8igg2f8e.cloudfront.net/documents/Insurgency_in_2030_2019-04-22_161317.pdf
The “low barrier of entry” for new military dangers
Verse Reference:
2 Timoth 1:7
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May 14, 2019 Episode 51 - The Sermon Length
On today's episode, Jonathan and Jake deal with the topic of how long the preacher's sermon should be.
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April 29, 2019 Episode 50 - From Exegesis To Exposition
On today's episode, Jonathan and Jake discuss the differences between exegesis and exposition and how they transition from one to the other in preparing their sermons.
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April 28, 2019013: Artificial Intelligence, Pt.2
We continue our discussion of artificial intelligence, focusing in part 2 on the unique questions and thoughts of those in the church.
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Topics:
Have we reached a plateau in AI development?
Kai-Fu Lee, AI researcher
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/opinion/sunday/ai-china-united-states.html
The Age of AI Implementation
What is our purpose for creating AI?
AI and social manipulation
AI and bias
AI as a religion: Anthony Levandowski and the Way of the Future
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/28/artificial-intelligence-god-anthony-levandowski
AI and idolatry
Technology Development as a calling
Ministering to those in Tech fields
How we treat AI says something about ourselves
AI in whose image?
Noreen Hertzfeld’s comparison of AI uses and the Imago Dei
Herzfeld, Noreen. 2003. Creating in Our Own Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God.Zygon®: Journal of Religion andScience37(2): 303-316.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1005&context=theology_pubs
Looking Ahead: Tesla battery fires and outdated safety methods
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-25/tesla-fires-what-first-responders-don-t-know-about-fiery-evs
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April 21, 2019 Easter Greetings! 2019
Let's never forget the real turning point in history; the resurrection of Jesus Christ. May you have a blessed Easter.
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April 16, 2019012: Artificial Intelligence, Pt.1
Artificial Intelligence; will it be the development to unlock the future or the thing that will destroy us all? With all of the hype, speculation, worry, and marketing, it can be overwhelming. In part 1 of our discussion on AI we’ll lay out a foundation and deal with the hopes and concerns of the next great evolution in our technology.----more----
Topics:
The uses and misuses of the terminology of AI
Narrow AI
General AI
Super Intelligence
Stages, tools, and systems of AI: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/types-of-artificial-intelligence-systems
Reactive Machines vs. Limited Memory
AI and Theory of Mind
AI and Self-Awareness
Arend Hintze, Michigan State University: https://www.govtech.com/computing/Understanding-the-Four-Types-of-Artificial-Intelligence.html
Data and Analytics
Uses of AI in today’s world
AI vs. Human Intelligence
How AI Learns
Is AI a threat?
Coming Up:
In Part II of our discussion we’ll address the state of AI in 2019 and what the church might have to say about the present challenges of AI and the future implications of the creation of a possibly sentient AI.

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April 15, 2019 Episode 49 - The Pastor's Study
On today's episode, Jonathan and Jake talk about their personal practices for sermon study including where they prefer to do the bulk of their studying.
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March 27, 2019011: Deep Fakes
Can you trust your lyin’ eyes? With the emergence of algorithms to forge sound, images, and video with greater accuracy, we run the risk of making the true and the false indistinguishable. Are we ready for the challenge of Deep Fakes? How can we in the church live in truth while in a world of falsehoods?
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Topics
Defining Deep Fakes
http://fortune.com/2018/09/11/deep-fakes-obama-video/
Fraudulent image and propaganda
The Uncanny Valley
AI and image fabrication
https://petapixel.com/2018/12/17/these-portraits-were-made-by-ai-none-of-these-people-exist/
Detection of Deep Fakes
Deep Fakes and Politics
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth
Deep Fakes and Economics
Erosion of Public Trust
Positive uses for these algorithms
Uses of Deep Fakes in personal conflicts
Abuses of Deep Fakes in the church
Break-down of unity
Having a reputation of trustworthiness
Dealing with scandal – real or perceived
Taking Responsibility
Where is our trust?
Looking Ahead: Plant-E energy development
https://www.plant-e.com/en/over-ons/
Passages Referenced:
Matthew 5:33-37
Galatians 6:1
Psalm 118:9

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March 14, 2019010: The Imago Dei & CRISPR
With the capability to alter human genes, we have to ask what this means for us and how we view and treat our bodies. What, if any, consequence is there for the Imago Dei, the Image of God, in humanity if we toy with our genes?----more----
Topics:
CRISPR method of gene editing
Treating human bodies as commodities
Parent/child relationship and designer babies
Embodiment and psychology
Potential uses of CRISPR
https://labiotech.eu/tops/crispr-applications-gene-editing/
Unexpected consequences in gene editing
Update on the twins from China
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/02/article/chinese-edited-genes-twins-may-be-smarter/
Gene editing of mosquitoes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6728543/Malaria-wiped-HERMAPHRODITE-mosquitoes.html
New eugenics worries
Greed and selfishness as motivations for editing
Various Interpretations of the Imago Dei
The theological function of Imago Dei
Christ as the full image of God
Divine likeness, human transcendence, and human destiny
Vanity engineering and the impact on the functional image
Christian ethics of gene therapy
https://biologos.org/blogs/deborah-haarsma-the-presidents-notebook/christian-wisdom-in-the-biotech-age
Passages Reference:
Revelation 18:12-13
Genesis 1:26
Colosians 1:15
1 Corinthians 15:49
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February 25, 2019009: Cybernetic Immortality v. Resurrection (part 2)
In part 2 of our discussion on cybernetic immortality and resurrection we look into the concepts of the soul, personal continuity, and resurrection as we compare the Christian image of hope with the possibility of uploading the mind.
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Topics:
The nature of the soul: Dualism v. psychosomatic unity
Influences on Christian theology of the soul
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Christian anthropology
Pannenberg, Wolfhart. Systematic Theology 3 volumes ed. Geoffrey Bromilley. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerrdmans Publishing Company, 1991-1998.
Resurrection as embodied existence
The “Spiritual Body” in Paul
The intermediate state between death and resurrection
Dr. Douglas Estes on cybernetic immortality:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/november-web-only/cybernetics.html
Continuity and discontinuity of the person in resurrection
Issues of bodily continuity within the present life
Quantitative vs. Qualitative continuity
Nancy Murphy on the nature of continuity
Murphy, Nancy. "The Resurrection Body and Personal Identity: Possibilities and Limits of Eschatological Knowledge," In Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments. ed Ted Peters, Robert John Russell, and Michael Welker. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerrdmans Publishing Company, 2002.
Factors of personal continuity
Body and memory
Virtue and vice
Relationships
Awareness
Types of Flesh: Present v. Spiritual v. artificial
Cybernetic immortality as quasi-religious endeavor
Can God resurrect a cybernetic life?
Noreen Hertzler on uploading the mid
Hertzler, Noreen. "Cybernetic Immortality versus Christian Resurrection," in Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments. ed Ted Peters, Robert John Russell, and Michael Welker. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerrdmans Publishing Company, 2002.
Cybernetic immortality and the relationship to creation
Looking Ahead: Adaptive Fabric,
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612909/this-new-fabric-will-automatically-cool-you-down-when-you-get-hot-and-sweaty/
Passages Reference:
Genesis 2:7
Job 34:14-15
1 Cor 15:34-38
1 Cor 15:39-41
Philippians 3:21

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