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Keith Plummer

@xianmind.bsky.social
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Christ-follower, husband, father, teacher. Interests: theology, apologetics, technology, and counseling. A generalist in a specialist's world.

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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 4h
Grateful for this beautiful volume from @trevinwax.bsky.social. Looking forward to profiting from it from Advent into the coming year.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 6h
“There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.” -Neil Postman
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 6h
“Bad authority is real, and Scripture never asks us to pretend otherwise. But the answer to bad authority is not no authority, or an AI bot that validates our every emotion. It is accountable authority found in a local congregation.” www.christianitytoday.com/2026/10/ai-i...
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AI Is Weakening Pastors’ Authority - Christianity Today
Christians should not be receiving pastoral guidance from technology that won’t give an account for their souls.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 20h
“So as AI companies create products that are deliberately designed to resemble human beings more and more closely, in the way they talk, in how they appear visually, it will be harder & harder to remind ourselves that we’re not actually interacting w/ someone.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ban-lif...
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Ban Lifelike AI Immediately
Robots should look and sound like robots. There is no benefit to allowing AI to appear human, and companies will exploit the confusion to demand “AI rights,” further cementing their oligarchical contr...
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Chatbots provide mirrors rather than relationships. The danger is clear: As generations grow up with an ideal self-object in their pocket, they won’t develop the capacity for human reciprocity." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Asked ChatGPT if it’s sycophantic.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Neil Postman on the folly of looking to the computer as a technological messiah:
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Failure to distinguish between scientism and science leads adherents to the former to regard its critics as being anti-science. Similarly, proponents of technicism erroneously charge those who point out technology’s limits and excesses with being anti-technology.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Neil Postman’s prescience continues to astound me. This, from a speech delivered in 1990, is as if he had Mark Zuckerberg and other contemporary tech giants in mind.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I hereby declare that from now on, the name of the song is “Artificialcalifragilisticexpialidocious.” All who do not comply are THE ENEMY.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by [Yahweh’s] commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.” (Lev 5:17 ESV) Unintentional sin is still sin, incurs guilt, and requires forgiveness.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
These are 9 books I'll never forget, but not necessarily THE 9. And, yes, I cheated by throwing a complete works in.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better—best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.” -Neil Postman
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The dignity and decorum of public office have fallen and I hope they can get up.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Delving into an advanced copy of my colleague Gary Schnittjer’s forthcoming book to prepare for recording an episode with him about it next month.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"It is important to remember what can be done without computers, and it is also important to remind ourselves of what may be lost when we do use them." -Neil Postman
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"We’re talking about programs that scrape the internet so that the next thing they say stands the greatest chance of pleasing their user." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Minors especially should not in any way be encouraged to interact with software presenting itself in personal terms.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ChatGPT for Teens, marketed as having guardrails to notify them of crisis conversations and controls to prevent using the chatbot to cheat on schoolwork, are misguided and naive. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/t...
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Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried (Gift Article)
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AI can relieve toil, but it cannot replace the human work that makes a church a community. Silicon Spiritualities season 1 finale: YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fWY... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Gu6... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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AI and Everyday: What Are Some Practical Frameworks for Christians? [Silicon Spiritualities - Ep. 8]
YouTube video by The Gospel Coalition
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today I spent a considerable amount of time composing a substantive email to colleagues that ChatGPT could have rattled off in no time—and I feel great.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. These pages amount to a map of each user’s social relationships.” I don’t count any convenience or ease worth trusting Meta. time.com/article/2026...
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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You
Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Every earthly beauty is but a shadow cast by the real beauty; every truth is grounded in the One who is truth; everything good on earth is but a participation in the real grounding of the One who is good.” -Ronni Kurtz, 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"If AI performs humanity, we’ll give it our heart." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pre-ordered in March, arrived today. I expect that it will be worth the wait.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Happy to receive the second edition of an outstanding volume that I was eager and honored to endorse.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We think we’re training the chatbots, but the chatbots are training us to expect reassuring, mirroring conversations." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Preservation shows us that the God who saves us is the God who keeps us, and our future is not suspended on the thin thread of human resolve but fastened by the unbreakable cords of divine grace and mercy.” -Ronni Kurtz, 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“…and if any one maintain that we are simply corporeal, this would far more exclude us from the knowledge of things, there being nothing so inconceivable as to say that matter knows itself. It is impossible to imagine how it should know itself.” -Blaise Pascal, 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘴
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Read Ronni Kurtz’s chapter on union with Christ in 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 this morning. Fitting thoughts to ponder in preparing for corporate worship:
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"If we say that generative AI chatbots are intelligent, our thinking about intelligence is downgraded. And if we say that our chatbots love or care about us, we downgrade our ideas about love and caring as well." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I recently said I’m OK calling it SI if that stands for Siren Intelligence. LLMs, in particular, are powerfully and deceptively seductive—not only relationally but intellectually.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"As I’ve shown my concern, I’ve been accused of attacking AI and assuming a 'privileged position' for humans...my position of looking at technology by first asking what people need is often taken as species chauvinism." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My stars, is this good! “…we must not allow a shortsighted focus on visible results to cause us to forget our theology.” mereorthodoxy.com/the-case-aga...
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The Case Against Video Preaching
God the Son took on flesh and communicated his message face to face.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As Postman noted, new technologies are ecological, not additive. Feverishly striving to win the AI race could result in arriving at alternative, unintended finish lines. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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China’s Push Into A.I. Has Led to a Problem: Too Much Usage (Gift Article)
As citizens embrace the technology for entertainment, relationships and even farming advice, the government is stepping up efforts to set limits.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A prerequisite for knowing what AI is for is knowing what humans are for.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Right now, the culture may be smitten with the idea of pretend conversation, but we have another choice: We can turn our attention to remaking the spaces in which the real thing can happen." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“For I have no one like [Timothy], who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 2:20-21 ESV) Note well: His people’s wellbeing is Jesus’s interest.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The more we recognize our vulnerability to the virtual, the more we’ll be able to commit to the real." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As much as I dislike email, I dislike the thought of using AI to compose my replies even more.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"For me, one principle is foremost: Children should not be the consumers of relational AI. While the seductions of pretend empathy are dangerous for all of us, children have no defense; they are first-time learners." @sturkle.bsky.social, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For the sake of our children and future society, the experimentation needs to stop. This is a sophisticated form of child sacrifice under the guise of benefitting its victims. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A wondrous thought from Ronni Kurtz’s chapter on the incarnation in 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦:
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Talking to chatbots reflects an engineering ethos—that the good life, and the one we should be striving for, is friction-free. And pain-free." @sturkle.bsky.social, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In college, every aspect of academic and personal performance is correlated with the amount of time students spend with professors—not virtual contact, but live contact." -Sherry Turkle, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The great seduction of digital technology, and now of AI, is to pull us toward isolation and anonymity, into faux ‘communication’ and ‘openness’ that is far from the communion and transparency that we need to grow in wisdom together.” open.substack.com/pub/commonpl...
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“There are no superlatives that can adequately describe his worth; there is no exaggerating his excellencies. He is the King of Kings, the Lord of all. Without Jesus Christ we have nothing, and with him we have everything.” -Ronni Kurtz, 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My review of @sturkle.bsky.social’s 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/arti...
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AI Promises Intimacy but Delivers Isolation
‘Artificial Intimacy’ reminds us of the value of real human relationships and should inspire Christians to make our churches and homes places where those relationships can flourish.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PSA: Due to ever-diminishing attention spans and impatience with long texts, TL;DR will now be abbreviated to TL. Thank you.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.” (Exod 23:5) “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” (Matt 5:46)
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