Albert Mohler | The Briefing Thursday, February 19, 2026
Feb 19, 2026
Discussion of digital stewardship and how technology can cause real harms. Exploration of AI hype versus current theological and ethical concerns. Examination of chatbots, claims they lack moral agency, and why building ethics into machines can be misleading. Warnings about deepfakes, online radicalization through games, underage betting spikes, and social media harms to teens.
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Don't Treat Chatbots As Moral Persons
- R. Albert Mohler Jr. warns against treating AI chatbots as moral persons made in God's image.
- Calling chatbots 'sociopaths' confuses moral agency with machine behavior and misassigns responsibility.
Imago Dei Separates Humans From Machines
- Mohler emphasizes moral agency requires being a human made in the imago Dei.
- Machines lack the created moral status that grounds conscience and accountability for humans.
Conscience Isn't Data You Can Download
- Mohler argues conscience is innate and divinely given, not emergent from data training.
- He rejects the idea that downloading laws and cases can create a true moral conscience in machines.