AI Ethics, Outages & Carbon Audits

Well, hey everybody. Welcome to Tech with that Tech Pastor. I'm your host, Justin Lester. And I'm grateful that you guys have tuned in and been here and been faithful to continue to come back each and every week. And I'm grateful for all of you. What I'd like to do is give you five stories and how they impact our churches or impact our religious spaces. And after those stories that we dive into a tool, a prompt and a challenge. They want to get through those things and also give you guys some updates on Pastor GPT as well as a conference I'm putting on here in Napa that would love for you to be here with as well. So welcome to the Tech with that Tech Pastor. I'm your host, Justin Lester. Let's dive into, I don't know, the algorithm's ascent. I don't know. Let's dive into it. Let's have some fun today. All right, so there's five stories that we want to dive into today that have happened over the course of the last six or seven days that I want to give you some. You probably had experience, one in particular, the ChatGPT outage. The others that kind of have impact on the wars going on around the world as we're sitting here in Cold War Two. That's just what I'm saying. So, number one, story number one, OpenAI and Microsoft Rift over a Windsurf deal. So tension have been going up as OpenAI executives consider accusing Microsoft of anti competitive behavior following OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf. Their concerns about keeping Windserf's coding IP out of GitHub's copilot amid OpenAI's reliance on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. In essence, somebody's mad at somebody over some money. And now Windserve's coming in and they want to keep Windserve stuff out. Microsoft feel, how to put this, Their ethical foundations seems a little more sturdy than OpenAI's. And I think that's where this rift is coming in. I also think OpenAI is going towards ChatGPT5 and AGI more quickly than Microsoft wants them to because Microsoft and their deal does not want to be there for AGI. And with Copilot's success based upon ChatGPT, I think this is where we're seeing this rift come in. So what does this mean for the church? What does this mean for you? I think the first thing is, number one, plan for redundancy. Do not put all your data into one space. While these things have grown so quickly we can see now that a lot of these companies are really offering themselves. Remember, there's still businesses advertising. Using your resources and your data for something. Don't put everything into one basket because we don't know if they're always going to be around. I think that's one thing. Number two, I want you to always negotiate your agreements that guarantee that even when your vendors have beef, you're going to guarantee your stuff's going to be cool if you're going to use anything. If you're hiring people, be sure in the hiring processes, even some of the engineers and people you bring on, that you're negotiating agreements, that even if people have beef in the process, you're good. Because when your AI vendor and your cloud start beefing, you're the one left behind paying the bill. Negotiate those things. All right, story number two. OpenAI secures a $200 million Department of Defense contract. So in the first Department of defense agreement, OpenAI secured a $200 million contract. We kind of saw this coming. And it joins rivals Anthropic and Enduro and military AI applications, underscoring the growing role of gen AI in national security. So what does it mean for the church? We have to deal with dual use technology. So if your sermon writing, remember we were fueling these spaces with our data is fueling defense systems. What does it say about our ethics? This is where now it comes in. Like now our data is going to be a part of this. So I think we have to then comes back from what's on computers to what's old is new. I think we have to lead conversations with our churches about justice, about peacemaking and the role that AI is going to have in warfare. This is beyond robotics and robot dogs. This is going to come down to how generating something new using predictive analytics and predictive models are going to impact war. Because if your sermon prep now is going to fuel drones, you got some tough questions to answer in the pulpit. And this is even something for me, somebody who's building we got to think about. All right, story number three. Meta's $15 billion AI push in. Wikipedia reverses AI summary. So Meta has shown a 15 billion dollar investment in the next gen AI research and acquisitions. And Wikipedia's backtrack on AI generated article summaries after community backlash highlighting the balance between automation and human. Really want you to grab this. So Meta is pushing AI research. Wikipedia is pulling back on AI generated summaries. Now, remember, because people can edit Wikipedia, I think this speaks to human in the loop Stuff So human in the loop. Gen AI human in the loop. So it's probably just continuing to hallucinate because people probably were doing things and because people are the ones giving these summaries. So what does this mean? Well, on meta side, money is flooding AI research, right. Like they're putting a lot of money into what is the next big thing. Everybody wants to know the next thing. And then I think our churches, Web two are valuing human curation. Wikipedia. So we can't replace our Bible study learners with an algorithm. And I think Wikipedia is showing us that. So you have one side, money's going to research on another side. People, where do they fit? So I think if Wikipedia pulled the plug in AI summaries, I think we need to make sure that we are making sure our preaching and our teaching is still filled with the soul and not just with our algorithms. That means your sermon prep can be assisted by AI, but it should not be done done with AI. Number four, 12 hour AI chatGPT outage. So last week a major chat GPT downtime affected millions of people across the world. Everybody who was using it. The reason being is they were bringing out O3 mini high. So I think it was 03. Yeah, they're bringing it out and it just shut down. I saw statuses across the board, people that know how to work because metacognition, you stop thinking because you were using AI. What it tells us is this. You cannot refer and use AI solely for all of your tasks. You have to have a plan B. Remember, this is still a system based on the cloud and based in data centers that people are still building, based with people who are still coding. You can't put your whole life offloaded into an app or to a phone. You have to make sure that you have a human backup for everything you're doing. So invest in training your team with AI and invest in training your team without AI. Because if AI goes down, you better still be ready to preach and teach. Yeah. So this is teaching us. This is still made by humans, right? Number five, last story. Gallup found that 40% of US workers use AI on the job. So a new Gallup poll found that 4 in 10American workers are using AI on the job. With tech roles leading 50% and frontline positions lagging in 9%. Telling us that the workplace adoption McKinsey & Co. Was suggesting a couple years ago has fully come to fruition where people are using it. 40% of people using it on a daily basis. So let me tell you this, your volunteers Your Bible study leaders, even if you say you're not using it, are definitely using it right now. I think we equip them with ethical guidelines and best practices. I would also suggest offering a workshop on safe and effective AI use for everyone from your finance team all the way to your greeters. Because if 40% of your congregation is already using AI from Sunday to Monday to Saturday, I guarantee you your staff is using it too. Do not let your church, you as the pastor or the leader, be the last person to log in. So those are my five stories. Those are the main things I think that you need to know going on this last week. Stay up to date on what's going on with it. People are using it, make sure there's a lot of money going towards research, it's being used in permanent defense. And there's a rift between the AI builder and the cloud builder, which tells a lot to us. I think it's going to influence and impact a lot that what we do. So may you be a part of the journey and the story and not get left behind. That being said, we're going to jump into our tool, our prompt and our challenge. Before we do that, we got a quick ad pastor, and you're looking for a GPT that is catered to you to help you craft sermons and do pastoral care and do work. Well, I got made one for you. It's called Pastor GPT and it's made for black pastors and black church leaders by a black pastor. And here you have formative space, formative ways to engage with your preaching, your teaching, your pastoral care, all for black congregations, Black people and black pastors. Now, anybody can use it, but it's crafted especially for black people to have a space to do their own thing and to engage holistically as Black individuals. So please go to pastorgpt Code and take a look at it. There's subscription models. There's a free model where you get five conversations a month. There's a first tier where you get 50 conversations a month and a second tier where you get up to 150 conversations a month. Take a look. Try it out. The goal of it is to give black pastors and church leaders a space to bleed black pastors and church leaders. I look forward to engaging with you in what Pastor GPT can do for you, for your future, for our churches and for all the I would love to have you out here in Napa with us. All right, so what does that mean? Our tool, our prompt and our challenge. So here's our New tool. There's a new tool called dia. Dia, and it's an AI first browser. It launched last week as a public beta and there's a lot of tools coming out. So I use a tool called arc. There's another one I got head up about Mirror. There's a lot. I think Google has another one. I know they already have Chrome, but I think there's another one that's AI first. I like ARC because it's AI first and has Perplexity. But DIA is a new AI first browser. It puts an intelligent assistant in your address bar so you can get research, summaries, action items, all of that without leaving your browsing session. I like it. I played with it a little bit. I still on arc. I tried mirror. I'm still on arc. So try it out. Dia, it's a AI first browser. I know Perplexity is coming out with their own as well, so you can research and do strategies while you're still in your web browser. But remember this, because of the language model it's built on, you always verify your facts. Remember, it can hallucinate, especially if AI is under pressure because your browser just got promoted to be your smartest intern. So have some fun. Play with dia. That's my new tool of the week. Here's my prompt. So I've been telling you guys about mega prompts for a while. Remember, mega prompts are not just the normal prompts. I suggest that when you prompt, record yourself to get everything out of your mind and then put it into a prompt in line, but mega prompting. So the hottest prompt by far is acting AI to act as a productivity coach. To kind of show you where you can produce better. So here's my principle. Here's my prompt for you today. You are my productivity coach. Based upon my priorities, based upon, you know, about me. Create a realistic to do list for today sorted by impact. It's a whole lot in this mega prompt. You're giving it a role coach. You're giving it a goal, right? Your priorities and your to do list and you're giving it a task. Sort it by impact. It's gonna be a really good prompt for you. So go try that prompt out. Act as my productivity coach based on my priorities. Create a realistic to do list for today sorted by my impact. Now this will help you balance help you do things and balance yourself out. There's a tool called Aster A S T E R that'll actually take your calendar for you every single week and build this for you. That'll really, really help you. So you stop chasing tasks and get back to engaging in vision. That's my prompt. So you have a tool dia, you have a prompt, mega prompt. And then you have a challenge. I want you to do this. I want you to run a carbon audit for your church. I want you to use your favorite tool, even if it's Pastor GPT or Perplexity or ChatGPT, and estimate your church's digital carbon footprint. Think about live streaming, think about your cloud backups, think about your chatbot usage. And then think about this. If we talk about all the water that AI is using, the copper and all of that, what are you learning about your church's energy usage and what's one change you would do to reduce it? And you know, I would love to hear what you think and how you've done with your carbon out of the church. I love for you to see how much you're using so we can be aware of what we're using as a church. Imagine this if 40% of US employees are using on a regular basis and you're using it just on Sunday morning and maybe occasionally throughout the week with your staff. And most churches don't have staffs beyond like 10 people and that's a massive staff. Imagine what the world is using. Just know where you are because of the cloud force overhead, your carbon footprint is under your feet. Be aware, be knowledgeable. Know it well. That's it for for us today. I hope that you guys are able to grab ahold of this with the three things with five things going on. Our tool, our prompt, and our challenge. Remember the goal of all of this stuff, AI is a powerful tool. My goal is goal is to have it to be used to build the body of Christ. So whether you're talking vendor disputes or defense contracts or corporate spending, service audits, carbon footprints, whatever it is, the goal is to serve people, never to replace people. And to build the body of Christ. Don't forget like and subscribe on YouTube. Follow us on on tiktokastor. Follow us on Instagram hattechpastor. Follow us on threads thattechpastor. We're all over the space trying to share the gospel. Get it out by any means necessary to encourage people and to push you to be all that you're called to be. 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