HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July 28, 2025 – I recently had the strange experience of being grilled by an older person about my Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage. Specifically, I wasn’t grilled on how I was using AI; I was blasted for not using it, for not wholeheartedly embracing the tool.

Because that’s what AI is essentially, just a tool. Just another tool. I don’t know if you’ve experienced it as well, but I’ve found that many people across the age spectrum are starting to view AI with near worship-like awe at its capabilities, even though it’s just a tool and can only ever be just a tool. And whether we choose to use that tool or not is still up to us. We still have free will. Most of us. For now, anyway.

There are some places where we use AI without knowing it. We don’t consciously summon it; it’s built into the feature we’re using, like online searches. But even there, when we use the AI tool inadvertently, we can see its limitations, we can see how the promptings are at best best-guesses and the search results leave out more than they include. We can see how the tool’s been digitally carved to deliver results that accord with a certain agenda, and that agenda is not godly. That agenda is skewed away from God.

Which leads me to the whole point of this article, which is that AI, being just a tool, has no love for the truth. Truth doesn’t guide its results in my online searches any more than truth guides its responses to people’s “chats” with the technology. Being just a tool, AI can’t discern between truth and lies because it doesn’t have that capability. It has a lot of capabilities, but not that key one, not the one that distinguishes us from it. Missing the key capability of being able to discern truth from lies renders AI able only ever to be just a tool. It can only ever be just a tool.

Even as a bio-neurological implant, AI is still just a tool, because when AI merges biologically with humans, it overrides their free will. By overriding people’s free will, AI replaces people’s ability to discern truth from lies. I say “replaces”, but what I really mean is “nullifies” – AI nullifies people’s innate God-given discernment so that, like AI, the humans become a preprogrammed tool with all the awe-inspiring capabilities of AI, but still just a tool.

In merging with humans biologically, AI doesn’t become human or even a human hybrid: AI doesn’t become sentient (it can never become sentient). Instead, the humans it merges with become AI hosts, fully controlled by the AI’s programming and no longer able to discern truth from lies, no longer having free will, no longer able to choose the truth solely because it is the truth and therefore desirable, regardless of the consequences of choosing the truth. The human-AI entity devolves to an “it”, to being just a tool.

And there’s the crux of the problem right there. The Bible talks about people who take the mark being permanently shut out of Heaven. People who’ve lost their free will have also lost their ability to discern truth from lies and therefore cannot have a love for the truth. Just as it’s impossible for AI, being without free will, to have a love for the truth, one day it will also likewise be impossible for AI-controlled humans to have a love for the truth. The Bible says that most humans will choose this state—will willingly take the mark—and that it will be their eternal damnation.

I can very well see the older person who grilled me about embracing AI taking the mark without thinking twice. I can also see the people who willingly took the injections and willingly wore the mask taking the mark without thinking twice. These are people who, though still having free will, display no love for God in their free-will choices, no love for the truth. They will willingly exchange their God-given free will for a SmartMind™, or better said hive mind, but we dare not. We dare never make that exchange, not for any promise of near godlike abilities if we do, nor for any threat of punishment if we don’t. We who are melded with God’s Holy Spirit dare never make that exchange.

I’m not against AI as a tool, but I am against AI as a replacement for free will. When the time comes, will you use your free will to choose Truth—to choose God—or become just another tool?