1KHO 911: What Is Technology Costing Your Family? | Ben Peterson, When Intelligence Isn't Human

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I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I read a book recently. It is called When Intelligence Isn't Human, Navigating Your Faith in the Age of AI. It's really about navigating a lot of things in the age of AI.

So wild that we're in this spot. Ben Peterson is here to talk to us about this and also some other things as well, because this isn't your only book and you also have a lot of extra resources. Ben, welcome.

Ben Peterson (2:30)

Hey Ginny, you're just a barrel of fun. I am already having a great time being on this show.

Ginny Yurich (2:37)

Oh yeah, good, good. Three minutes in and you're having a good time. That's fantastic. I hope it remains.

Let's talk about this topic that you bring up in this book that basically AI is in a lot of cases taking the role of parent. You use father because this is often the case where kids are growing up without a dad in the home, but it could be either parent or if parents are kind of distracted, they're real busy, that's what's going on today. But in your particular case, your dad did pass away and he was not there for you in these big monumental seasons of life, getting married, having a child, work and all of those types of things. Can you talk about the draw of using AI as a replacement for that and what you think the long-term consequences would be?

Ben Peterson (3:27)

Yeah, so I run a ministry that is on 10 active duty military bases, ministering to our Defenders of Freedom, it's called Engage Your Destiny. And that's really where Ginny, this was birthed.

People have been shocked that a military veteran ministry guy is writing a book on this topic. But the majority of the people that our organization ministers to, their ages are 18 to 26

And what we are seeing, Ginny, right now is a fatherless generation. And this is happening both with fathers and mothers where over 50% of Gen Z is growing up without both parents in the home. And I'm a full believer that you need a mom and a dad. They both are essential. One is not more important than the other. And I come back to this role of the father in our lives. My wife always kind of says, like, you have the heavenly father and then you have the Holy Spirit. And she always says, you're the representation of the heavenly father and I'm the representation of the Holy Spirit.