What the Tower of Babel and AI Have in Common

Ben Peterson, founder of Engage Your Destiny and former military chaplain's assistant, has led more than 8,000 sailors, airmen, marines, and soldiers to Christ in the last three years. He works with the most faithless generation in American history — only 3% of Gen Z holds a fully biblical worldview — and he is watching them turn to AI chatbots for spiritual advice, emotional support, and the sense of belonging their brains are wired to crave. His new book When Intelligence Isn't Human: Navigating Your Faith in the Age of AI is his response.

The Tower of Babel, the dopamine loop, and a generation being shaped by technology built by men who don't follow Christ: Ben walks through why he believes AI is the tool of the great deception described in Matthew 24, how the creators of the most powerful technology in human history are driven by evolutionary moral relativism and utopian promises that echo the language of Mao, Hitler, and Stalin, and why a 40% rise in Gen Z turning to AI chatbots as pastoral figures should alarm the church. He also shares why he is not anti-AI, where the line is between useful tool and dangerous dependence, and why he believes the same historical pattern that brought revival through World War Two, the Civil War, and the Great Awakening is building again right now.

Highlights

• Why dopamine is a pursuit chemical, not a pleasure chemical, and how social media and AI have hacked that system in young people
• How 40% of Gen Z is now turning to AI chatbots in the same way they would turn to a pastor for spiritual guidance
• Why AI is not the issue — it is the originators and creators of AI who are building a world without Christ that is the danger
• The Tower of Babel parallel and why Genesis 11 warns about what happens when nothing is impossible for those who reject God
• Where Ben draws the line between AI as a tool and AI as a guide or relationship — and why it will never replace the Holy Spirit
• Why he is concerned about the 70% of military personnel who are Gen Z and what AI integration means for their spiritual lives
• The every-80-to-90-years revival pattern and why he believes the church is on the verge of the greatest move of God yet
• How every copy of his book sold funds putting a copy directly into the hands of a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine

Resources / Links / CTA

• 🌐 Ben Peterson website: https://thebenpeterson.com
• 🌐 Book website: https://whenintelligenceisnthuman.com
• 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebenpeterson
• 📖 Book: When Intelligence Isn't Human: Navigating Your Faith in the Age of AI by Ben Peterson
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