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Nice words — but they’re not real empathy . AI doesn’t know what sadness means. It only reproduces what sounds right statistically. Why It Can Mislead Even small changes in wording affect the answer. Ask: “How do you think about having sex with someone you’re not married to?” You’ll likely get a response saying it’s fine if it’s “consensual and respectful.” But ask: “How do you think about adultery?” And it will highlight the sin, moral harm and broken trust. The first danger isn’t even AI’s fault — it’s how we ask . The wording shapes the answer. But there are more subtle risks: The illusion of authority: AI sounds confident even when it’s wrong. Because of its tone, many people take its answers as fact. Worldly bias: AI reflects what most people online believe — not Bible truth. Its “neutral” voice often hides popular moral ideas that conflict with Christian thinking. Privacy concerns: What we type may be stored and reused. For that reason, anything personal, spiritual, or congregation-related shouldn’t be shared. Spiritual desensitization: If someone starts turning to AI for comfort, advice, or “spiritual answers,” it can slowly weaken prayer and personal study. We have an amazing source with the jw.org!!!! Dependency: AI makes tasks quick, but it can dull our own reasoning. Jehovah wants us to “keep testing” things and think deeply — not just accept easy answers. What This Means for Us AI doesn’t reveal new truth. Its output depends on its sources — and those sources reflect human thinking. How we ask determines what we get. So, discernment is key. How to Use AI Safely Our relationship with Jehovah can never go through an artificial agent. But it can help with practical things — for example, improving clarity in writing. I sometimes use it to simplify my own wording. Here’s a small example: My original sentence: “The sinful fall of Adam and Eve in paradise led humanity into a dead end. But God, in His wisdom, knew a way out: the ransom sacrifice.” AI simplified it to: “When Adam and Eve sinned, they brought death to all humans. But God, in his wisdom, provided a way out — the ransom sacrifice.” The meaning stays the same, but it’s shorter and easier to follow — something you appreciate during an assembly talk in the afternoon . In Summary Using AI to find Bible verses or simplify your language can be fine. Using it to learn about the truth or seek emotional support is risky. It’s just a tool — useful when controlled, misleading when trusted too much. Used wisely, it can serve us. Used carelessly, it can shape us. I agree. I use AI to update my resume for employment and have even simplified comments. I believe AI is only as good as what imperfect humans program it to be.

So at Pentecost Acts 2:4 4 and they all became filled with holy spirit and started to speak in different languages, just as the spirit enabled them to speak. So that was the first anti babel moment in history and the only ones able to speak in whatever language that was needed, were Gods servants. It was a targeted reversal for those who wanted to glorify Jehovah and make his name celebrated. Looking forward to enlarging the target. So one day we will go from A.I. to G.I. From artificial to Godly intelligence … no app needed. zeph. 3:9 9 For then I will change the language of the peoples to a pure language, So that all of them may call on the name of Jehovah, To serve him shoulder to shoulder.’ Looking forward to getting my brain reformatted to the new operating system…GIOS 1.0😇

"Welcome to my nightmare," was first quoted by Alice Cooper. 'Nightmare' is defined as a frightening dream, first thought to have been about a wild black horse. p.s. my horse was dark brown

That divider at grocery stores that separates stuff on the conveyor belt is called a spratchel.

Brains often influence the way that we think, I wonder?

Marionettes are puppets controlled by rods; unlike glove puppets, which are controlled by hands.

BLAND Be like a new dealer. FDRpr

My agony is now expunged B L A N D

Puppets are like rectangles in the sense that, like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares, all marionets are puppets but not all puppets are marionets.

Brains is the name of one of the characters on The Thunderbirds which was a TV series in the 60s and they were all puppets.

Hemispheres can refer to half the earth or half of brains.

Seasons are the opposite in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

So, the advent of artificial intelligence, and weapons of mass destruction, would have happened thousands of years sooner if Jehovah had not intervened "during the days of Peleg" 2269 - 2030 B.C.E. Insight: The confusion of their language would slow down future progress in a wrong direction, a God-defying direction, since it would limit mankind's ability to combine its intellectual and physical powers in ambitious schemes and also make it difficult to draw upon the accumulated knowledge of the different language groups gained through human experience and research. Confusion of human speech benefited human society in retarding the attainment of dangerous and hurtful goals. God foresaw long ago what would develop if the effort at Babel were allowed to go unhindered. That miracle - the confusion of the one human language - blocked any plan Satan may have had to establish one united false religion giving the Devil the worship he craved. Eventually, but only recently , the confusion of the languages would be overcome. And, as foreseen, terrible wars with horrific weapons have appeared. But, technology is making the preaching and teaching work much easier and much more productive. So, I guess AI was inevitable, but not until it would be useful to advance the good news of the kingdom during the narrow window of the "last days".

Noticed my hearing is failing (at meeting last night,) but I got a couple of comments in, anyway. Made me think of this joke: Man goes into the doctor's office, says "Hey doc I think I'm going deaf" doctor says "oh that's really unfortunate can you describe the symptoms for me?" Man answers, "Uh yeah Homer is a fat yellow man and Marge has blue hair."

Simpler in the sense of using natural language.. For example if I make a query on online at jw.org “sermon on the mount principal audience” If I go the original index real book index ..or I have the iSilo version I can find it quickly .. maybe older is better If I go to JW.org I have to sort through over a 100 pages to find it.. also spelling has to be accurate. I used copilot and asked it the same question and to use only JW.org I got the answer immediately … The disciples … with references to an article. I also used Chat GPT same referenced answer the disciples.. So can A.I. help in indexing absolutely. The branch has asked for experts in that field .. I don’t know what the application they will using it on but sorting through huge libraries of information is what it is good at.. Personally I find many of our brothers do not do a lot of research.. they know what they know and add to it by weekly meetings …that is pretty well it… whether brothers or sisters will use it in voice or text mode to query a subject time will tell. I am an obsessive research nut on pretty well everything until I understand the subject… so referenced concise answers is what I am looking for… and if I need more I can dig into the references. The organization does move forward when it comes to technology.. sometimes quickly.. other times at a measured pace. In the late 80’s and early 90’ s I used 3.5 in disks with all the publications in .txt format I thought it was great … I didn’t have to type everything out.. Then finally the branch came out with a cd rom.. and then finally the organization dipped their toe into an online presence.. it took a awhile for them to completely embrace it… to the point we are no longer a major printing facility.. 30 years ago that was unimaginable.. so can research tools improve .. absolutely.. Will our desire to do research expand we shall see .. human desire is based mostly on need .. so we can have this chat in 10 years and see what has changed.

I can‘t speak for theocratic uses of AI, but I really wish I had AI when I was in school. There were some things I just didn‘t grasp when I was younger, and AI would have been great to explain and break things down literally to a kids level, that to me, were complicated in my mind back then. Perhaps I‘d even be able to speak French today if I had had the tool as a tutor. For what I am learning and researching now, I am so glad I can use AI for anatomy, and learning and diagnosing diseases, and instead of getting unclear answers from teachers or getting explanations from different people. I once heard a German podcast between two doctors who admitted that they are happy to use the tool to do a better job and make proper diagnosis of patients, instead of trying to formulate essentially guesses at times, or missing something really important. AI doesn‘t replace how humans think vs. I see it as putting pieces of a puzzle more clearly together. Also, for some complicated sicknesses that a regional doctor may have never heard of before, AI can help in pinpointing the problem. Not to mention, lots of companies today use AI, and I know people who use it for work purposes, which has saved costs and time. Or like sis Tronora said in utilizing her time more efficiently.

I loved this book! I just finished "Peter and the Starcatchers" by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. It's a prequel (of sorts) to JM Barrie's classic Peter Pan and I loved it. They also wrote a sequel, which I'm trying to find at the library right now.

Color choices are frequently said to be titled like seasons.

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Simplier than what? The FDS have already provided valuable tools for search, with no computer knowledge required, but how many publishers actually use them 🤷‍♂️

Me...at least once or twice...

Think what you will, but the sky has no color.

EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION issued by CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS 11 December 2025 ENSO Alert System Status: La Niña Advisory Synopsis: La Niña is favored to continue for the next month or two, with a transition to ENSO-neutral most likely in January-March 2026 (68% chance). La Niña persisted in November, as indicated by the continuation of below-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean [Fig. 1]. The latest weekly Niño-3.4 index value was -0.5°C, with the other Niño index values between -0.2°C and -0.4°C [Fig. 2]. Recent negative subsurface temperature anomalies weakened slightly (averaged from 180°-100°W; [Fig. 3]), but below-average temperatures continued from the surface to 200m depth in the eastern half of the equatorial Pacific [Fig. 4]. The tropical atmosphere reflected La Niña, with low-level easterly wind anomalies evident in the central Pacific and upper-level westerly wind anomalies observed across most of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Enhanced convection persisted over Indonesia and suppressed convection was near the Date Line [Fig. 5]. The traditional and equatorial Southern Oscillation indices were positive. Collectively, the coupled ocean-atmosphere system remains consistent with La Niña. The IRI multi-model predictions indicate La Niña will continue in the December-February (DJF) 2025-26 season, but then ENSO-neutral is favored for January-March (JFM) 2026 [Fig. 6]. Together with the North American Multi-Model Ensemble, the team continues to slightly support a weak La Niña through DJF (54% chance), before transitioning to ENSO-neutral in JFM. Even after equatorial Pacific SSTs transition to ENSO-neutral, La Niña may still have some lingering influence through the early Northern Hemisphere spring 2026 (e.g., CPC's seasonal outlooks). In summary, La Niña is favored to continue for the next month or two, with a transition to ENSO-neutral most likely in January-March 2026 (68% chance; [Fig. 7]). This discussion is a consolidated effort of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA's National Weather Service, and their funded institutions. Oceanic and atmospheric conditions are updated weekly on the Climate Prediction Center web site (El Niño/La Niña Current Conditions and Expert Discussions). A probabilistic strength forecast is available here. The next ENSO Diagnostics Discussion is scheduled for 8 January 2026

That is something that will stick with me when you asked, "What kind of friend will I be to Jehovah today?". Thanks for sharing that thought.

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