Artificial intelligence has no wants of its own, but the humans building and deploying it do — and Christians must ask what vision of human flourishing is shaping this technology.

Genesis 1:27

So God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them;

male and female, he created them.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways submit to him,

and he will make your paths straight.

Psalm 8:4-6

What is mankind that you are mindful of them,

human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels

and crowned them[d] with glory and honor.

You made them rulers over the works of your hands;

you put everything under their feet.

Colossians 1:16-17

For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.