What happens to our creativity, our prayer, and even our humanity when we let AI do too much for us?
In this episode of Creative Catholics, Alex Cahill explores the temptation of AI from a distinctly Christian perspective. Rather than asking simply whether AI is good or bad, she asks a deeper question: What is using AI doing to us?
AI can write, compose, create images, answer questions, and make our lives remarkably efficient. But what happens when convenience begins to replace the difficult, beautiful work of being human? What happens when we stop thinking, creating, praying, learning, or communicating because a machine can do it faster?
Drawing on Magnifica Humanitas, the Tower of Babel, Genesis, the saints, and the Christian understanding of creativity, Alex reflects on why our struggles and limitations may be more important than we realise. Creativity isn't simply about producing something impressive—it is about participating in God's creation with the particular gifts, experiences, memories, and perspective He has given us.
The question isn't simply, Should I use AI? It's: What am I using it for? What am I allowing it to replace? And what kind of person am I becoming because of the way I use it?
Because we're not machines. We're human beings, made in the image of God, called to create, love, work, pray, and ultimately become saints.
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