FaithTech OC · September 22, 2026
What Are You For?
Being Human in the Age of AI
Scott Andrew Williams
Pastor · Chief Innovation Officer · Author
Poll · 1 of 4
What is your general sentiment toward AI?
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It's going to be the end of the world
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Uneasy
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Optimistic
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It's going to save us all
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Both optimistic and uneasy
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Poll · 2 of 4
How often do you use it?
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I intentionally avoid it
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Every now and then
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Weekly
4
Daily
5
Throughout the day
6
I'm token maxxing
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Poll · 3 of 4 · Think
What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen it do?
Answer a deep question · build powerful software · Create an engaging video · handle complex actions on a computer · design & build an entire website · 
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Poll · 4 of 4 · Don’t answer this one
Has it ever made you question your role, your worth, what you’re for?
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Genesis 1:26–28 · NRSVUE
26 Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
27 So God created humans in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
The Ancient Near East
Wherever you saw the statue: the king rules here.
צֶלֶם  · דְּמוּת
Tselem · Demut
Image · Likeness
He’s not paying a compliment. He’s commissioning representatives.
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the difference
Wherever humans walk, there the Image of God is encountered.
God has democratized His image for all of humanity.
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Genesis 1:31
טוֹב מְאֹד
tob meod
Exceedingly good.
31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
The first pair
Worth precedes work.
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Chapter one, not chapter three
Designed before damaged.
Not by others. Not by you. Not by machines.  But declared by God.
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Genesis 1:28
Blessed with a commission.
28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
The second pair
Identity precedes commission.
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So, what are you for?
Representing the King in the place He put you.
Reflect His love to the world. Lead creation in praise.
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The correct order
The false gospel
Be useful, and you will be loved.
The true gospel
You are loved, so go and bear fruit.
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Exodus 18
Delegation is biblical.
Moses wasn’t less responsible. He was appropriately responsible.
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Exodus 32:24
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I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!
Aaron, to Moses
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The guiding principle
Delegate the task, never the calling.
Delegate, don't abdicate
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Two tests
Judgment
Have I stopped asking whether the output is true, good, and mine?
Formation
How is this shaping me?
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Image-bearing
Worth precedes work.
Identity precedes commission.
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One ask
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Delegate the task, never the calling.