When God made Adam and Eve, the first two human beings, He made them with great potential. Unlike all the other creatures of the world, only humans did He make in His own image (Genesis 1:26–27), gifting them with amazing talents, capabilities, intelligence and creativity.
Sadly, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden chose to rebel against their Creator. They chose to eat of the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In doing so, they chose to decide for themselves what was right and what was wrong.
Ever since, each human being has followed in their footsteps, and the human experience has been just that: a mixture of right and wrong, good and evil. With seemingly every discovery or technological innovation, people have used their God-given intelligence to find ways to apply it for both good and evil—to help and to harm.
This paradox of human intelligence holds true even as mankind strives to understand intelligence itself. As human intelligence applies itself to the creation of artificial intelligence (often simply called “AI” for short), in one of the most advanced and ambitious fields of research human beings have ever pursued, what can we expect? Can we look forward to millennia of peace and prosperity under the care of benign and wise super-intelligent computers? Or will we continue the pattern of the last few thousand years, finding an evil use to match every good one? You may be surprised to learn that your Bible reveals the answer!