Before You Embrace AI In Church Tech, Read This

Hey, it’s Brady,

The future of tech and creativity is being shaped.

Except this time humans are not the only ones doing the shaping.

A team at MIT did EEG brain scans on 54 participants for 4 months.

They tracked:

• Alpha waves (creative processing)

• Beta waves (active thinking)

• …and neural connectivity patterns

The findings?

ChatGPT makes you 60% faster at completing tasks.

But here’s the tradeoff:

It reduced the need for actual learning by 32%.

Said differently, you're trading long-term brain capacity for short-term speed.

MIT researchers called this "cognitive debt" - like financial debt, but for your brain.

I call it: creative bankruptcy.

Basically, every shortcut you take with AI creates interest payments in lost thinking ability.

And just like financial debt, the bill comes due eventually.

Does this mean we abandon AI altogether? No.

But boundaries are likely needed.

The Dark Side of AI in Youth Ministry

Teenagers are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for connection and questions.

What could go wrong?

Maybe you've seen this dark side of youth ministry. Maybe you haven't.

My belief is this:

The threat this poses to the formation of young people, is considerably greater than what my generation, Millennials, had with social media.

Get the breakdown here.

Thanks as always for your time, attention, and trust. - Brady Shearer