Would you take a university course about ethics and artificial intelligence that was built by an algorithm? How about if the professor was an avatar and the marking was done by a machine? In 2024, six graduate students at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, said “yes” to these questions and embarked on a…
“About three months before OpenAI launched publicly, I was given a sneak peek, and I knew immediately that this is going to drastically change education, probably forever,” says Darren Spyksma, the Associate Executive Director for the Society of Christian Schools in British Columbia (SCSBC). Just over a year ago, Spyksma was tasked by the SCSBC…
Harry Plantinga, a professor at Calvin University in Michigan, is designing a chatbot that acts as a spiritual director. His web-based Journee app is part of a study group on centring prayer. New users are greeted with a friendly message and an invitation to describe their personal prayer habits. “There’s no right or wrong answer…
The early Greeks saw the essence of education as Paideia: the process of forming a whole person into an ideal citizen. They emphasized the formation of virtues like prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance in preparation for active citizenship. Later, in the Medieval era, the Christian tradition saw education as formation for the glory of God,…
I serve as the Christian Reformed Church of North America’s representative on the Faith and Life Science Reference Group (FLSRG) of the Canadian Council of Churches. The FLSRG focuses on the relationship between science and our God-given humanity. Often, I get to learn about and discuss topics I normally wouldn’t delve into. We explore genetic…
Every month, I pay $3.99 to “the cloud.” Crazy right? A cloud? Sounds like it should be free. A couple of times a year, I get so annoyed about this Apple cash grab that I try to detangle my digital life from it. I hit “cancel subscription.” An ominous red cloud symbol with a warning…
On a recent spring course in Korea, I had the unique opportunity of visiting a variety of businesses and universities. A highlight of the trip was attending the 2025 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Expo in Seoul. I heard the same message over and over: AI is here to stay and is developing at a rate faster…
Technology has always been both a threat and a thrill to artists. Every new tool is like having a new toy. Even going from something like an animal-hair paintbrush to a Photoshop paintbrush has been a challenge and an excitement to the creative mind over the last few decades. Now we are quivering with the…
The other day, I chatted with Abraham Kuyper. The conversation went something like this: Derek: “Hi, Dr. Kuyper. What do you think of Christian Courier?” Kuyper: “Ah, Christian Courier. While I am not directly acquainted with this publication, I can certainly appreciate any endeavor that seeks to bring the light of Christ into the public…
Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful.” These are the words of the web pioneer Marc Adreessen, writing about how “AI Will Save the World.” Such optimistic claims are not new. The rise of the world wide web came with predictions that it would be…
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