Links to Christian Thinking in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Material on AI from a Christian Perspective

• ThinkFaith Blogs on AI.
  • Artificial intelligence in the image of God?
  • Can AI be human?
  • Can other animals be human?
  • Why are humans important in AI?
  • How well can AI work, and why?
  • If AI heeded a neighbour
  • Artificial thinking?
  • Imaging our Creator; imaging ourselves?
  • Can Language Remain Human in the Age of Large Language Models?

• John Lennox on AI. Video. Wide-ranging.

• BBC Reith Lectures 2021, on AI, December 2021, Living with Artificial Intelligence, give by Stuart Russell. In some ways rather thin. <"a href= "https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/player">The series, 4 episodes. The RLDG discussed some of them.
  • 1. The Biggest Event in History
  • 2. AI in Warfare
  • 3. AI in the Economy
  • 4. AI: A Future for Humans

  The RLDG Discussions that emerged from these:

  • Contents of the following

  • 7th RLDG Discussion on AI: ChatGPT Friday 10 March 2023
  • RLDG Discussion 6, on I. Overview of discussions and What We Learned. II. Proposal for a Dooyeweerdian Approach to A, held on 21 October 2022.
  • RLDG Discussion 5, on I. A Future for Humans; II. Proposal for a Dooyeweerdian Approach to AI, held 8 July 2022.
  • RLDG Discussion 4: AI and Economics, Part 2, held 27 May 2022.
  • RLDG Discussion 3: Explanation of AI; AI in the Economy, held 6 May 2022.
  • RLDG Discussion 2 On Artificial Intelligence in Warfare, held 8 April 2022.
  • RLDG Zoom Discussion 1, on Artificial Intelligence, held 4 March 2022.

AI from Dooyeweerdian Perspective

• Some Wisdom About Artificial Intelligence (AI). This gives something of experience with AI during the first wave in the 1980s, and the lessons we learned then and should be applying today. During the 1980s, development involved skilled and sensitive human knowledge elicitation from experts (KEAI); today this is bypassed by machine learning (MLAI) - and yet we are discovering that MLAI cannot escape the need for human elicitation. Three versions:
  • Video version on Youtube
  • Webpage: (the most up-to-date)
  • Pdf

• Three blogs on AI published by Thinkfaith.net that make use of Dooyeweerd's philosophy:
  • Blog 1, Can AI be human?
  • Blog 2: How AI works: Why Humans are needed
  • Blog 3: How well can AI work and why?

• On Hannah Fry's AI Confidential TV programmes on AI Trascripts, summaries and comments on how Dooyeweerd can provide deeper and more robust understanding

• Dooyeweerd's Philosophy - and its relevance to AI - material delivered at lecture / seminar at the University of Salford on 12 March 2026, in a AI in Business to help students learn about Dooyeweerd so they can undertake aspectual analysis.

• On Representing Knowledge in an AI System - looks especially at (a) in which aspects might AI succeed or fail? (b) how to train an AI system, (c) what we might learn from 1980-90s 'knowledge elicitation' AI.

• Artificial Intelligence with Dooyeweerd - video, 10 minutes. Especially on whether AI can be human. Part of talk given at the Toronto Institute for Christian studies, 2013.

• An Integrated Understanding of AI (pdf, 11 January 2024)

• Artificial Intelligence: An Holistic Perspective: a fresh approach to AI made possible using Dooyeweerd's philosophy.
• Aspect-Oriented AI Question-Answering: a proposal to develop better AI conversation systems
• Basden A, (1983). On the application of Expert Systems. Int. J. Man-Machine Studies, 19:461-477. An early paper that draws on actual experience of AI used in practice during the 1980s about what roles AI could play beyond just replacing humans. Still relevant today. Here is the Pdf.

• Working Sheet for Aspectual Analysis - print off list of aspects with space to fill things in.

Various Articles, pdf

• Paper on Type of Knowledge in Knowledge Base - Understanding is better than experience in the KB.

• On the roles that AI (expert systems) can play for users

This page, "https://christianthinking.space/ai/ai.links.html", is part of a collection that discusses application of Herman Dooyeweerd's ideas, within The Dooyeweerd Pages, which explain, explore and discuss Dooyeweerd's interesting philosophy. Email questions or comments are welcome.

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Created: 12 March 2026 from wdyu:ai.portal. Last updated: 14 March 2026 added TFN links.