Will and Caro discuss some surprising findings from the recent Spiritual Misfits listener survey and then continue their series looking back at excerpts from Future Church Conference keynotes — this time, Simon Buckingham Shum's exploration of AI and the Church. His talk pushes past the "AI will save us / AI will doom us" binary and asks a much better question: not is AI good or bad, but what is the quality of each interaction, and who is it being trained to serve?

Watch Simon's full talk from Future Church Conference here:
https://youtu.be/Q5zLFaK-pDw?si=JH6Pq3hwzW-pYR4y

Check out the Center for Humane Technology's podcast, mentioned in this episode: Your Undivided Attention
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast

Slides from Simon's talk can be viewed here:
https://simon.buckinghamshum.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Simon_FCC26.pdf


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