Using Artificial Intelligence Wisely as Jehovah’s People

[exactor]

If anyone has concerns about AI 'learning'(!) from what you prompt, you may want to use venice.ai. I have privacy concerns about some projects I work on. Using Venice, all your work disappears when you exit the AI or close your browser. Another AI option to consider is LM Studio. One has to download LM Studio. Once that is finished, you can pick a Model you'd like to use. Everything you do with the Model you select is only on your HD.

[Regina J]

22 minutes ago, Hope said:

 

I lean on my actual friends as much as reasonable. But realistically, no one has the time or patience to hear me ALL the time. There are also things I'm perhaps embarrassed to confess to other people.

 

I have Jehovah, of course, but I appreciate the immediate response from the Copilot tool. I always pray before I use it and after, request scriptural responses, and never forget it's merely a tool- not a substitute for prayer or my real friends, who have been unfailingly helpful. 

 

Copilot is as close to a confidant at 2 am that I will ever have. I don't need it to have "feelings"; it's exhausting to (or expect someone to) commiserate all the time. The tone is kindly enough for me and I appreciate the "Spock" level of logic. Feelings aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Understand 

[JBee]

50 minutes ago, Hope said:

 

I lean on my actual friends as much as reasonable. But realistically, no one has the time or patience to hear me ALL the time. There are also things I'm perhaps embarrassed to confess to other people.

 

I have Jehovah, of course, but I appreciate the immediate response from the Copilot tool. I always pray before I use it and after, request scriptural responses, and never forget it's merely a tool- not a substitute for prayer or my real friends, who have been unfailingly helpful. 

 

Copilot is as close to a confidant at 2 am that I will ever have. I don't need it to have "feelings"; it's exhausting to (or expect someone to) commiserate all the time. The tone is kindly enough for me and I appreciate the "Spock" level of logic. Feelings aren't all they're cracked up to be.

I concur. It also helps those of us who also tend not to share internal thoughts and feelings with others (including Jehovah), I find the logical answers it gives can make clarify my thinking little so that I can better word what I want/need/feel etc. It can be a valuable tool, but definitely just a tool.

Edited Saturday at 04:58 PM by JBee

[carlos]

On 12/12/2025 at 5:55 PM, Parale said:

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

 

Paul, I agree we have some very useful tools, but they have some important limitations. If you wish to find a scripture or an article you need to type the exact literal words. Oh, yes, you can use some logical operators, but those are not for everybody. My parents are not even able to type without spelling mistakes, so they hardly ever find anything. Not to mention languages with diacritics or where words change depending on their role in the sentence.

 

A couple examples from real life of how AI can be of help. I was recently trying to remember a scripture about listening to both versions of a story. I can never find that scripture because I don't remember the exact words. So I asked ChatGPT: "What scripture in the Bible says that you need to hear both versions of a matter to be able to make a good decision? Please quote it from the New World Translation." The reply? "A commonly cited Bible verse that teaches this principle is Proverbs 18:17 'The first to state his case seems right, Until the other party comes and cross-examines him.'" This is what I mentioned before about semantic search. Instead of looking for the exact words, it understands what you are talking about and finds relevant information.

 

Another example. I asked ChatGPT "Please find some article exclusively on wol.jw.org about comforting someone suffering from old age". It gave me links to four excellent articles with a very brief summary of every one of them. Sure, I could have used the index, look up Comfort, then go down several pages of concepts until I found "the elderly" but this way it's much easier. 

 

I think a tool like that would be extremely useful to spend less time searching and more time studying.

[Doug]

4 hours ago, carlos said:

 

A couple examples from real life of how AI can be of help. This is what I mentioned before about semantic search. Instead of looking for the exact words, it understands what you are talking about and finds relevant information.

 Sure, I could have used the index, look up Comfort, then go down several pages of concepts until I found "the elderly" but this way it's much easier. 

 

I think a tool like that would be extremely useful to spend less time searching and more time studying.

 

Yep.  I remembered something about the angel who became Satan may have had oversight of the garden of Eden.  I could have done a keyword search at wol.jw and eventually found what I wanted.  Instead, I just put the question to Gemini and bam, I had the scripture, Ezekiel 28:11-19. From there, I can go to the scripture and see the study notes and related articles.

 

It's a major time-saver. Would love to see the brothers incorporate it into our library.  Just type your question and the references come up and you're on your way!

[LeolaRootStew]

I accidentally spelled Jehovah's name wrong by a single letter and it pulled up no results. 😑

[Regina J]

On 12/13/2025 at 12:26 AM, Hope said:

I prefer to think we might simply be able to speak/ understand anyone we meet, like what happened at Pentecost.

 

Even if we all began to speak the same language, it wouldn't take very long for various accents and dialects to develop. Different places and times call for different words and references. Even the same language can change drastically in under 200 years. After a thousand years, all around this huge planet? I really don't see how we could continue to literally speak the same language. Language is too fluid.

 

But giving us the ability to speak to and understand anyone? Jehovah showed how easily He could make that happen. And it would allow all the different thought patterns that have led to the beautiful cultures, music, art, dance, poetry, food, etc., that we have now.

That would be amazing 'to speak to and understand anyone'. We will soon see!

[Jim Jam]

It repulses me that some brothers use AI to generate a whole talk for them. 

 

Public talks are not just to teach, they are an act of worship. You express your own faith when you give a talk, thus it must come from the heart, not from AI.

[trottigy]

Thanks. I moved your post to the Watchtower thread 

 

 

 

 

[Shawnster]

On 12/12/2025 at 9:36 PM, Hope said:

Or worrying about confidentiality.

 

This is actually a fear done have. Is AI collecting information? I mean, these various sites are stating that they are collecting data and responses in order to better train AI response.  How much collection is taking place?  Does it go into the cloud and disappear or will what we share come back to bite us later? 

[Shawnster]

On 12/12/2025 at 10:03 PM, Doug said:

On day one there will be hundreds of languages among the great crowd, but there will also be translation tools.  Then, the resurrected will add more languages.  Until the day comes when everyone will speak the same language.  A completely new one??

Or Jehovah will instantly restore humanity to the same language just as he divided the languages. 

 

[Shawnster]

On 12/13/2025 at 12:26 AM, Hope said:

 

Even if we all began to speak the same language, it wouldn't take very long for various accents and dialects to develop. Different places and times call for different words and references. Even the same language can change drastically in under 200 years. After a thousand years, all around this huge planet? I really don't see how we could continue to literally speak the same language. Language is too fluid.

 

Or the underlying reason we have dialects is due to imperfection, so even that could be a thing of the past. 

 

Sin and imperfection has created beauty as well as pain. Beautiful art has come from people's suffering and pain. 

[Hope]

9 hours ago, Shawnster said:

 

Or the underlying reason we have dialects is due to imperfection, so even that could be a thing of the past. 

 

Sin and imperfection has created beauty as well as pain. Beautiful art has come from people's suffering and pain. 

Why would a dialect be an imperfection? It's just a way languages change over time due to migration, new developments/ tech, discovering new things that need words for them.  

 

Anyway- I love all the different languages, cultures, art, music (which styles often reflects the language it comes from) etc. The more things are different from me, the better I like them. We speak the Pure Language now- that's good enough for unity, imo. Actual spoken languages can stay unique. ☺️ We don't know how things will play out in reality so I guess we'll see.

[Hope]

9 hours ago, Shawnster said:

 

This is actually a fear done have. Is AI collecting information? I mean, these various sites are stating that they are collecting data and responses in order to better train AI response.  How much collection is taking place?  Does it go into the cloud and disappear or will what we share come back to bite us later? 

I don't have any information that will cause me any more trouble than I already have. I don't have any money to steal, my credit is terrible and my life is boring. 

 

I fear nothing.

[Eejay]

On 12/13/2025 at 12:20 AM, Hope said:

ChatGPT

These AI systems are of course useful. No one would use them otherwise. But really they are just another example of human endeavour to overcome the restrictions of sin and imperfection in Satan's world, whether humans know it or not.

 

Humans, left to their own devices due to their departure from Jehovah's direction, have accomplished extraordinary things due to the to the Creator's ingenuity in their making. Advances in technology, air travel, medical sciences come immediately to mind. Just taking medicine alone, gene therapy (CRISPR-Cas9) is pretty amazing. But, all these advances are shaped and governed by the morality of their users, and not by Jehovah's standards. This creates a challenge for any of those serving Jehovah and utilising the faculty of conscience to steer an acceptable course in the midst of a world doing otherwise. As an example, gene therapy that alters blood cells that are then utilised in transfusion techniques may well cross boundaries of acceptablity, no matter how clever and beneficial the technique appears to be.

 

So to AI. We can use it. There are obvious parameters, there are other individual limits one might set for themselves. It is not a substitute for "thinking ability" or the faculty of conscience.  Who knows what the future holds for such developments? Remarkable and clever as independant human achievement appears, much of it will be specifically redundant in the new world. Who will need a literal heart transplant? And one only has to meditate on the intellectual capability of a perfect human governed by Jehovah in the dim glimpse we received of this in the form of Jesus. Artificial Intelligence pales in the light of human perfection in Jehovah's hands.

 

Meantime, I find AI quite a novel and useful tool, although it does have a tendency to tell me what I want to hear. 

[Hope]

52 minutes ago, Eejay said:

These AI systems are of course useful. No one would use them otherwise. But really they are just another example of human endeavour to overcome the restrictions of sin and imperfection in Satan's world, whether humans know it or not.

 

Humans, left to their own devices due to their departure from Jehovah's direction, have accomplished extraordinary things due to the to the Creator's ingenuity in their making. Advances in technology, air travel, medical sciences come immediately to mind. Just taking medicine alone, gene therapy (CRISPR-Cas9) is pretty amazing. But, all these advances are shaped and governed by the morality of their users, and not by Jehovah's standards. This creates a challenge for any of those serving Jehovah and utilising the faculty of conscience to steer an acceptable course in the midst of a world doing otherwise. As an example, gene therapy that alters blood cells that are then utilised in transfusion techniques may well cross boundaries of acceptablity, no matter how clever and beneficial the technique appears to be.

 

So to AI. We can use it. There are obvious parameters, there are other individual limits one might set for themselves. It is not a substitute for "thinking ability" or the faculty of conscience.  Who knows what the future holds for such developments? Remarkable and clever as independant human achievement appears, much of it will be specifically redundant in the new world. Who will need a literal heart transplant? And one only has to meditate on the intellectual capability of a perfect human governed by Jehovah in the dim glimpse we received of this in the form of Jesus. Artificial Intelligence pales in the light of human perfection in Jehovah's hands.

 

Meantime, I find AI quite a novel and useful tool, although it does have a tendency to tell me what I want to hear. 

 I do specifically ask it to be as impartial as possible and NOT just tell me what I want to hear. I usually hear some uncomfortable but reasonable truths.. 

[New World Explorer]

36 minutes ago, Hope said:

 I do specifically ask it to be as impartial as possible and NOT just tell me what I want to hear. I usually hear some uncomfortable but reasonable truths.. 

I have friends to do that …(not picking on you … I just don’t know how to phrase this better) 
Human touch cannot be replaced by AI …. 
I have set boundaries on how to use AI, more personal questions I direct to my friends for discussion, in fact I had a discussion like this today. 

[Amygdala]

Hope, which AI do you use? I am really liking the paid version of ChatGPT.

[Canyon_1985]

Sometimes I use ai when I'm bored, but I have stopped  from using it too much for my carbon footprint which is high