How Doomed Are We? A Philosophical/Theological Consideration of AI/ChatGPT in Relation to Theological Libraries and Theological Education

Abstract

How should theological librarians think about and respond to the advent of AI in theological education? What role(s) might theological librarians have in this brave new world? How is AI similar to, and different from, other information technology revolutions (writing, printing, the internet)? Should institutions of theological education consider pursing a kind of new monasticism, leaving the decadent dystopia into which we seem to be heading for the purity of quill and parchment? While we may be unable to provide definite answers, this session offered a forum for raising, considering, and discussing these and related questions.