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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 10/09/2026

"The witness is not given to a pre-determined outcome. The witness testifies to the truth, come what may, often at great expense. The witness has no other outcome in mind than speaking the truth, and is not directed to hold back parts of the truth which are inconvenient."

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 09/09/2026

My daughter told me on the way to school that each morning they watch a video of someone doing something nice for someone else and talk about it. Yesterday was about how a class set up a visitation and food schedule for a classmate (and family) in long term ICU. That's a good curricular decision.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 06/08/2026

"It seems to me that those who yearn for the Singularity, who live in perpetual pursuit of an infinitely far-away destination—respectable—seem to envy those who have found a love so deep for something that they’re willing to stop the world to keep it." www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/the-month-...

thealgorithmicbridge.com

The Month AI Conquered Math: The Full Story

The story of July 2026: the conjectures that fell, the humans who celebrate and mourn them, and the limits of what machines can conquer

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 09/06/2026

Really good game. I just hope how close it is doesn't keep the broadcast from letting me know which celebrities are in attendance.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 09/05/2026

I think back to all the times as a kid in church and we talked about there weren't really literal idols any more. Our idols were money or looks. Now pastors are worshiping massive golden idols of Trump on his lawn and he'll still have 80%+ evangelical approval. Dan 3 in the flesh. Wild stuff.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 06/03/2026

Tried an agentic project with the new Opus via Github Copilot. Wanted to understand impact on human experience with agentic tools. 1. Agents make everything a coding project. 2. People prompt chatbots. Agents prompt people. 3. Human in the loop is not possible. Too fast & way too much to review.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 12/02/2026

I'm not unfamiliar with the level of support Trump has among evangelicals, but I got to be honest. The number of my former theology professors in the last few months who explicitly excuse his moral failings has hit me harder than I would have expected.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 09/01/2026

Lots of debate over angles and milliseconds. Matters in court, but for the rest of us it boils down to: Should people that get in the way of ICE die? Its an extension of, "should someone without the right papers die at CECOT?" Angles aren't changing minds. Your heart has grown cold or it hasn't.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 06/01/2026

I sniffed the theobros turning towards Fuentes after the Carlson interview. There was a lot of "I'm not saying we agree on everything, but..." Even so, it's certainly strange to see them sit down with him for a "We have been too hard on Hitler..." talk just a few months later.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 21/12/2025

The age of men is over, the time of wet rat winter has come

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 10/12/2025

For the Christian I don't think much separates this from consulting a medium. Something besides the resting dead speaks using their image. While a chatbot doing it feels better than a demon, I'm not sure the distinction is meaningful enough to make the former acceptable practice within the faith.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 14/11/2025

Vance unintentionally putting immigrants in good company "Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them." Luke 12:37 (among many many references)

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 11/11/2025

"Think about it, you walk into a bank and you see 50 year mortgage sitting there–there's 51 year mortgage right beside it. Which one are you gunna pick?"

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two men are sitting in the back seat of a car . one of them is pointing at something .

ALT: two men are sitting in the back seat of a car . one of them is pointing at something .

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 04/11/2025

AI's primary use case for writing is cheating at school. For images its making stock imagery, and for video its commercial. Well and for all three pornography. Its best at the kinds of communication we would be better off without.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 14/10/2025

My LLM take of the day is that GPT-4o like sycophantic responses are pornographic even if OpenAI doesnt allow it to be sexually explicit. Pornography has more to do with experiencing faux intimacy via control of media than it does actual intercourse (even though intercourse is the preferred form)

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 07/10/2025

I wrote for Adventist Today on Zohran Mamdani's appearance at an Adventist Evangelistic series. It looks at why this is a surprising venue for a campaign stop given the denomination's history, and how we got to this point. atoday.org/sickness-in-...

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Sickness in the City of God – Adventist Today

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 02/10/2025

I spoke with @joolia.bsky.social as she was writing this article. The Bluesky reaction on something AI wasn't a surprise to me at all, but it is interesting to be subject of it. Obviously I wasn't the article's main subject so our total convo got understandably boiled down to a couple quotes.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 25/08/2025

FL schools are spending $600k for a 3 school pilot program to have "30-90" drones per campus with less-lethal weaponry and a 100mph top speed. They will be piloted from TX by "the best drone racing pilots in the world." Surely violent machines piloted by hobbyist racers will make schools safer.

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Florida schools introducing armed drones that respond to shootings within seconds

Three Florida school districts are trialing the weaponized drone system after it was approved by Governor Ron DeSantis.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 02/08/2025

The first 2 times the leader of a non-covenant nation are divinely judged in scripture (Gen 12, 20) is because of sexual immorality. They take a woman who isn't theirs to be with. Their repentance spares the nation, but God's people suffer for encouraging this behavior. May those with ears hear.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 06/06/2025

Social Media made us more desperate for attention. Now with LLM chatbots offering attention whenever and however we want it, it will create a desperation for trust, even if you don't use them. How many times already have you asked if you are reading someone's words or what an LLM said for them?

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 27/05/2025

An entire article on replacing seminary instruction with AI because AI will be able to "do it better," and not a single bit of reflection on how God used Spirit-filled humans to write the Bible, and how teaching is one of the spiritual gifts. How do you miss this? mereorthodoxy.com/ai-seminaries

mereorthodoxy.com

AI is Coming for Online Pastoral Education

Online seminary training as it exists today is Borders Books. AI is Amazon. Like it or not, online pastoral training is about to change dramatically.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 23/05/2025

"After all, if we hardwire conscience into tools, we shouldn’t be surprised when the wrench decides who’s guilty." www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-to-do...

strangeloopcanon.com

What to do when the AI blackmails you

in questions we're all going to have to learn to ask

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 22/05/2025

"We have discovered a new thing that no one has ever thought of before. It will change your life dramatically." - Every new silicon valley startup What it actually means: "We have created a way to collect more of your personal information to sell" Every single time.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 14/05/2025

Old people have a reputation of not wanting to learn new tech. When I was young, I was excited about it because of what I could gain. As I age I am starting to see more clearly what I will lose. LLMs are remarkable, but they mostly do things I want to keep doing myself. It can be that simple.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 08/05/2025

Crazy how Star Wars has 12 movies and each ranges from good to excellent. Not a a single miss. The 13th movie comes out next week to finish off the 10 movie prequel run. Just take a look at this! Episode 1: Revenge of the Sith Episode 2: Cassian Awakens (S1E1-3) Episode 3: Rebel Heist (S1E4-6)

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 07/05/2025

I've been stressing in my education circles that we need to expand our focus focus on cheating to also deeply consider the relational impact of "algorithmic companionship" on students. Great piece by @josemarichal.bsky.social

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 28/04/2025

Algorithmic content delivery like from Google, Meta, and TikTok trends toward shopping & conspiratorial thinking (see @lmsacasas.bsky.social's theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/dots-will-...) When new algorithmic content service comes out—like generative AI—you can predict at least two outcomes.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“As an American, I would hope that the U.S. would be the last place that someone who’s fled religious persecution is afraid for their life.” thedispatch.com/article/afgh...

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Get Out by Good Friday, Feds Say to Afghan Christians

The Department of Homeland Security has revoked immigration status of some Afghans who fled to the U.S.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 02/04/2025

I knew I should have gotten a new everything before the tariffs kicked in.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 02/04/2025

Excited to try generative AI for lesson planning so I can get back to doing what I love checking assignments for cheating and the follow up conflict Thank you Silicon Valley!

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 31/03/2025

Despite initial fears of AI content being mistaken for real, I think the greater long term impact will be how often real things get dismissed as AI.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 27/03/2025

There's a non-zero chance that eventually we will discover that a bunch of Venezuelan immigrants' social media was fed through an AI image recognition tool and all the ones with tattoos or making hand signals were flagged and arrested with little to no human investigation.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 07/03/2025

Chatbots are not bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. They are not suitable for companionship.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 06/03/2025

Read an article recently with the line "Move slow and repair things," in contrast with Silicon Valley's "Move fast and break things." That's a proverb that immediately settled right on down in my soul.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 24/02/2025

Primary use case of generative AI in politics is not creating high quality deceptive imagery, but obvious attempts to take someone's likeness and subject it to your will. Technology always extends something. One thing GenAI extends is non-consensual interactions. Just look at how it was built!

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 07/02/2025

What it's like being an educator working with EdTech

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 04/02/2025

I've been studying technology as religion which seeps into politics. In light of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Curtis Yarvin's influence on the current administration I was interested when I came across the Technocracy movement in Canada in the 40s and 50s, heavily influenced Joshua N. Haldeman.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 05/01/2025

General consensus in education about LLMs is to make "better assessments". LLMs do punish some bad assessments, but they also work on good assessments. Making assessments LLM-resistant sometimes means making them worse. Just because an LLM can do something, doesn't mean it's bad to ask students to.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 03/01/2025

I wrote several drafts of an article I titled "Black Like It"—after the (in)famous book from the 60s—about generative AI & blackness. I never felt satisfied & figured the topic just wasn't meant for me to write about, but in essence I was trying to talk about how unsettling these profiles are.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 10/12/2024

Spent hours with a vendor on LTI integration and we were still stumped by the end. We both reached out to our CMS/LMS support. Mine gave me a list of things to try generated by ChatGPT which asked things clearly answered in the video I attached to the ticket. Going it alone I guess.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 09/12/2024

I bought one of those retro game handhelds. Between work and kids I don't have the time I did in my youth so I put stuff on it which can be played in short spurts. Like last night before bed I turned it on and played just a quick 52 levels of Chip's Challenge.

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 03/12/2024

Who is laughing at my iPhone 6 now?!

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 23/11/2024

Lots of talk about how AI will allow every student to have their own personal and patient teacher. Very little talk about AI corporations want every kid in the world to have the same teacher—their product. Diversity of thought is a core component of education.

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Dr. Laura Robinson @laurarbnsn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I never had a faith crisis moment where I woke up and realized "Oh my gosh, I don't believe this." I had a faith crisis moment looking around at everyone else in church and realizing, "Oh my gosh, THEY don't believe it."

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 20/11/2024

Were humans created for production or meaning-making? "AI-assisted researchers discover 44% more materials, resulting in a 39% increase in patent fillings and a 17% rise in downstream product innovation...Researchers experience a 44% reduction in satisfaction with the content of their work"

strangeloopcanon.com

When we become cogs

on motivation and technology

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Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 20/11/2024

Bluesky has people now, and some I know! I suppose I should actually post. One of the things I'm exploring is the role of technology in the biblical narrative. I like to write about it, and my most recent is on what I call technognosticism, which has the attention of some really powerful people.

redeemingtechnology.substack.com

Techgnosis: The New American Religions

What UFOs and AI have to do with American religion

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