Some points from the last session:

• Who are your advisors?, Part 1. We may get that gut feeling the way Nebuchadnezzar had his dream, but we likely can’t understand it without input from advisors.
• How do you select advisors to help you face life situations?
• Are you that kind of advisor to others?
• We often have transactional expectations of God, acting as though our relationship with God is transactional when it’s really transformational.
• We expect God to treat us well in this life in exchange for our being well-behaved.

Who are your advisors?, Part 2. I’ve used a tool called the Giftedness Workshop that helps people determine how God has gifted them.

• It reminded me of tools like DiSC and Myers-Briggs personality assessments, but the Giftedness process involved partnering with people who listened and asked questions to help identify one’s giftedness.
• A hallmark of the process was the emphasis on listening and questioning. How do we interact with people who have come to us for advice?

Who are your advisors?, Part 3: I found an article titled, “Advice from artificial intelligence: a review and practical implications” on the National Institutes of Health website. Some material from the article:

• “AI advisors in organizations should be implemented for objective tasks or tasks with high computational needs, but not for more subjective tasks or tasks with heavy social and/or emotional content.”
• “subjective tasks (e.g., making a numerical estimate) or social–emotional tasks (e.g., rating the attractiveness of an individual) that would nonetheless benefit from the use of an algorithm, increasing the anthropomorphizing of an AI advisor could be an effective way to increase AI usage.”
• ” AI advice is likely to have a large influence on HR practices such as employee recruitment and personnel selection.”

To what extent have we begun to rely on AI systems as our advisors? What are the benefits and drawbacks? Have our pastors addressed that issue from the pulpit?

The University of Alabama Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship meets on Wednesdays at 11:45 AM in the Chapel of the Baptist Campus Ministries Building (403 University Blvd, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401) at 4th Avenue and University Boulevard.

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