Earthquake Strikes as Elder Gong Speaks!

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:10]Hi everybody, welcome to Christian Homestead. My name is Jared. I got an email from Eric Rodriguez. Subject line earthquake near proposed AI data center site. And in the email, dear Jared, I hope you're doing well. I am writing to share a news article I recently read regarding an earthquake that occurred near the proposed site of a controversial AI data center.

[00:00:34]Now, before I continue, it seems to me that it doesn't matter where a data center is going to be constructed. It's always controversial. Uh all across the United States, uh probably throughout the world, I've seen documentaries about them and there's been lots of news articles lately. Uh in case you don't know, the main thing is that they use up a lot of electricity and water to uh keep the computers cool. Uh these are essentially for cloud computing and they're even more relevant now with AI. And so it it's kind of a big deal for the communities that they come to because um I guess what's happened in the past is that they will raise prices for water and electricity in the communities that they're in as well as noise. Uh, I guess if you live somewhat close to the data center, when uh the air conditioners kick on, it causes a lot of noise, like a a hum uh that'll travel far aways and can drive you crazy. All right, continuing. Given the ongoing discussion surrounding this project, such as the potential environmental impact this will have on Utah's water table and the Great Salt Lake, I thought this information might be relevant. and then he provided a link and then says,"I look forward to hearing I look forward to hear your thoughts on this as I've noticed earthquakes have very well been signs of the last days. Best regards, Eric Rodriguez." Well, thank you for the email and I do find it interesting. Um, let's read what the Salt Lake Tribune has said. And then we're going to go on to talk about AI because if I was to view this as a sign of the times, which it very well could be, I think it might have to do with AI. I'm not against AI at all. I use it all the time as I do research for this channel and I think it's a really good thing. But, uh, this comes at an interesting time. This article is dated May 28th and this is the same time within the within a few days I think of when Elder Gong went to Greece um Athens for an AI conference and he was warning about the dangers of AI that it is a good thing but there definitely need to be guard rails and so and there's like an upcoming thing that he's doing there's like a special message that he's going to put out about AI like AI has become more and more important as time has gone on and it seems like the church and other churches have addressed it more and more and more. Um it it's really interesting. So this really could be kind of a minor sign of sorts. So SI Tribune um let's just read what I have highlighted in the article. A 3.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern Boxelder County on Thursday. The US Geological Survey reported the tremor originated at a small null near Sage Valley known as Johnson Hill, not far from the site of the proposed quote unquote hypers scale data center campus.

[00:04:03]Now, I had heard about this data center uh I guess because I follow um some accounts like on Facebook and Instagram that are out of Utah and I I still keep on top of Utah news. Uh this is a really large data center. I think like it says here, hypers scale. Um, it's actually 40,000 acres.

[00:04:33]40,000.

[00:04:34]Um, there's this from the Salt Lake Tribune. So much worse than I even thought. Utah's hypers scale data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake. And um, it has like a I thought it had like an image.

[00:04:51]Oh, maybe not. Um, but in this article, this is ABC4 Utah, Boxeller County Data Cent's projected daily heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs.

[00:05:06]The daily heat equivalent of 23 atomic bombs daily.

[00:05:13]Um, so it's no joke and you can see why the water is needed to keep that cool. Um, let's see. It says the proposed data center is comparable to 40,000 Walmart super centers.

[00:05:34]So, it's huge. Oh, wait. What's this say about Back to the Future? For a pop culture comparison, the fictional DeLorean time machine in Back to the Future required 1.21 gigawwatts to power the flux capacitor for Marty McFly time travel.

[00:05:53]Uh, and this is uh 16 gaww.

[00:06:03]Okay, so let's see. And then uh here in Independence, Missouri, one of the recent stories uh is the data center that they're going to construct uh just here. Not too not too close to where I live, but uh kind of I don't think I'm going to be able to hear it from where I live whenever it's in operation. But here's an article from May 12th. Crews break ground on Nebus data center in Independence. And you know, I've been seeing the the yard signs and the here's a Facebook group, no data center in Independence with a mega mega horn and um they're doing all sorts of things. Uh there was this news story that I saw, Independence residents seek to recall Councilman John Perkins. Uh and by the way, I think he's standing on a bridge that's been out the entire time that I've lived here. uh a bridge that we it would have been very convenient for us to use as we would drive to the temple lot, but we always had to take a detour.

[00:07:09]I think it's that bridge, but they are going to be fixing it this year, so I'm happy about that. It's just a little a little bit too late for me. Um so it yeah, it's this data center in Independence is only 400 acres uh compared to the 40,000 acres uh for this one in Utah.

[00:07:31]I don't know how I feel about it. It I mean, we need them, right? I I I appreciate technology. I appreciate AI.

[00:07:40]Um I appreciate cloud computing. That's what my my spreadsheets uh rely on data centers. That that's where they live.

[00:07:49]They don't live on my device. They live in a on a server somewhere. I don't even know where, but some data center. So, I want them, but I know that people are trying to come up with solutions um to figure this thing out, but I don't think that that they're going away. Uh so, I I don't know. But this is not meant to be like a political video.

[00:08:15]So, Earthquake Earthquake recently near the site of this massive data center in Utah.

[00:08:24]and around the same time. So again, let's just look at that the date again.

[00:08:29]Um, so this article is May 28th and what we're about to cover uh comes from about the same time period.

[00:08:40]Yeah. And right when I need it, it it goes away.

[00:08:43]Yeah. Here we go. So take a look at this. This is Elder Garrett W. Gong's official Facebook account and he recently recorded a real from Athens, Greece where he talked about AI.

[00:08:58]Uh this was a trip that he made to Greece to be part of this uh artificial intelligence conference that was recently held but he recorded this message and uh this is dated May 28th.

[00:09:12]So, I don't do you think it's a sign the earthquake in Utah uh where the church is headquartered in this massive data center and uh and then this message from Elder Garrett W. Gong. Well, this is what he said. Let's go to my spreadsheet, the data of which is in a data center somewhere.

[00:09:35]He said, "This is Mars Hill in Athens, Greece, where in his day the Apostle Paul bore testimony not of the unknown God, but of the true and living God." In our day too, glibly some people say that artificial intelligence is God or speak of godlike artificial intelligence.

[00:09:57]But God created man and man created artificial intelligence. AI cannot create God. How grateful we are to know that as the Apostle Paul said in him, in God, we live and move and have our being. It's true. It's all true and it's always true.

[00:10:21]Um, so I told you how there's this thing coming up. Uh I I guess it's going to be Elder Gong uh giving this like special message. Uh it says here in the hour-ong video available Sunday, June 7th, the Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints will will teach guiding principles for safely navigating artificial intelligence while continuing to hear God's voice. Quote, "Can artificial intelligence replace God?" he asks. That question may sound provocative, but in an age when we turn to algorith algorithms for answers, guidance, and even comfort, it matters deeply.

[00:11:06]And then it goes on to say that you can watch this message on YouTube, Gospel Library, and Gospel Media.

[00:11:15]So, I would encourage you to watch that.

[00:11:17]I'm I'll watch it myself.

[00:11:20]Um, it's interesting because it seems like Elder Gong has been like the church's point man uh for artificial intelligence.

[00:11:30]We've seen him talk about it before uh notably last year, October 21st, 2025.

[00:11:38]Uh these are the highlights from a video I had done back then, but I want to revisit this before we go on to what he said more recently.

[00:11:48]He said something really interesting.

[00:11:50]So, we just we just uh saw that social media post where he was in uh Athens, Greece at a temple of a of a god from a polytheistic religion. And that should put into our minds that you know that that's that's wrong. You have the Abrahamic faiths and one of the big things is that there is one God. Uh, of course, in our religion, it's not just one single God and that is it. We we do we're we're not just creatures uh created by God. We are uh the same species as God. But you you get what I'm saying? But you have these ancient religions that you have like a pantheon of gods. And he's essentially comparing what's going on with artificial intelligence and some people's uh literal worship of it. Uh because there is the church of I can't remember the name of it, but it's like the church of AI. Uh it's an actual church. Some people have wondered if they're being serious, if it's kind of tongue-in-cheek, but there's uh reason to believe that it may be somewhat serious. uh and if it is not I wouldn't be surprised if at some point there are more churches of AI but he said this last year um he said these are my old um highlights as the internet of things becomes the artificial the artificial intelligence of things we search for a metaphor to to describe our time uh it may be Prometheus and his stolen fire it may So remember that's like the story of um taking uh godly power that humans were not meant to have. That's the basically what that story was about. It may be Icarus and his wings of wax. So kind of similar um Icarus who was trying to fly really high and got too close to the sun or in other words going somewhere where man was not meant to go uh and then suffering the consequences.

[00:14:02]And then he says it may be the tower of babel.

[00:14:06]Um later he says these cautionary tales each warn of hubris trusting in the arm of flesh losing our moral compass and the inevitability of unanticipated and unintended consequences amidst dislocating tech technological change.

[00:14:26]Uh and then let's see. AI cannot generate revelation or truth from God.

[00:14:34]Nor should we allow AI to be to come between us in our personal relationship with deity because there are people that will go to AI. They they may go to AI first before praying and working through their problems. Of course, you can use it to help solve problems, but some people just skip God and go to AI.

[00:14:56]Um, and then later, oh, he says like the same thing here. As a creation of God, man can create AI, but AI cannot create God. So, he said that in this recent social media post, as with Prometheus, Icarus, and the Tower of Babel, human efforts to create utopia or to reach heaven always fail.

[00:15:23]Ultimately, we are constrained by our human pride, fallibilities, and limited moral understanding and capacity to know and do good.

[00:15:34]So, I think that's interesting. So, we have Mars Hill in this recent video and then in this one he talked about Prometheus and Icarus and the Tower of Babel.

[00:15:46]So, I think we should really stop and think about this technology.

[00:15:53]And I feel like it has lots of potential to do lots of good, but also lots of bad.

[00:16:01]Um, it may get to the point I've entertained this idea. This is kind of this is sci-fi, but I've entertained the idea that this could be civilization ending if something really goes ary. Uh, whether it's the development of some kind of biological weapon or chemical weapon or um some other thing that we just can't predict uh if it gains its own autonomy. and and then you have like a Terminator type situation or the Matrix or something like that. Um I I do think that it it's what I'm about to say is more of a sci-fi thing, but it'd be so interesting if that's part of the necessity of the second coming is to come and save us from ourselves. um for God himself to come here and finish off this last thousand years under his guidance and and in a true utopia.

[00:17:02]But I I don't know, it may not happen that way. But wouldn't that be interesting if the siege, you know, the invasion of Israel, the siege of Jerusalem, and how that's a situation where there's about to be annihilation.

[00:17:18]Uh, if actually what it is is AI, I'm I'm not seriously entertaining that.

[00:17:24]Don't start typing and calling me wrong.

[00:17:27]I'm not really entertaining that, but I'm open to all sorts of possibilities when it comes to the fulfillment of prophecy. So, I don't know. It's just kind of interesting.

[00:17:40]Okay. So, let's go to uh this conference that he just went to.

[00:17:47]The Salt Lake Tribune notes that um uh you know, he's issuing his warning at a time that Pope Leo uh just issued a warning uh as Pope. Uh I looked through that a little bit. I think I was about to do a video about it. I don't think I mentioned it, but Pope Leo put out a thing about AI as well. And uh and then here's the conference. Let's just do a quick little tangent. You can see that he's talking to a Jewish man. Well, I take note of things like this because I have a spreadsheet. It's a timeline of every time that I know of that a member of the first presidency or a member of the quorum of the 12 have met with someone who's Jewish in a official capacity or has traveled to Israel. Uh, I have a timeline for those things because when we think about prophecy, when we think about the two witnesses and uh, preaching to the Jews, having interaction with the Jews, I like something that I think his name is Victor Lello said to BYU students about that prophecy, how you already have prophets that they're going to Israel.

[00:19:03]They go there somewhat frequently uh, to Israel, to the BYU Jerusalem Center, and they interact with Jews. Um, and so if the two witnesses are not literally just simply two witnesses, but the collection of all these different special witnesses of Christ, the apostles, we have had lots of contact with the Jews. This is just the the most recent uh example of that. So this time it's in Greece.

[00:19:33]um the Athens Summit of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence by the American Security Foundation. And during this conference, uh he spoke with Rabbi Daniel Feldman of Yeshiva University.

[00:19:48]So, this is my first um this is my first entry for 2026 of an apostle meeting with someone that's Jewish. Uh but we have all this down here. And of course, it's not like I've collected every interaction. It's going to take more time to uh it's going to take time to research.

[00:20:12]I'll probably use AI to help me find more instances where our apostles have interacted with the Jews. But it's been a lot a lot more than you may think. It doesn't have to be street preaching in the Jewish quarter of old Jerusalem. I think that it can simply be this.

[00:20:32]All right. So to finish off this video, let's go to the transcript from Elder Gong's talk. So this is faith, moral compass, and the gift of possibility in an age of artificial intelligence by Elder Garrett W. Gong.

[00:20:50]I'm just going to show you what I highlighted. Um, it's worth reading the whole thing. You can also simply watch it on YouTube.

[00:21:01]But I'm going to show I'm going to share with you uh my highlights. Okay. During the 20 years I worked in Washington DC, Dr. Henry Kissinger was a colleague at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A favorite story described by Dr. Kissinger.

[00:21:17]Sorry. A favorite story described by Dr. Okay. A favorite story described Dr. Kissinger visiting a zoo. A zoo.

[00:21:28]There he saw a lion and a lamb lying peacefully together.

[00:21:33]Remarkable, he said. How do you do it?

[00:21:37]Well, the zookeeper confessed. Every day we get a new lamb.

[00:21:45]Mars Hill, the tower of Babel, Icarus, Prometheus.

[00:21:51]Every day we get a new lamb.

[00:21:55]So this is what he shares uh toward the beginning of his talk uh or speech under a section called AI developments.

[00:22:07]AI developments and vital questions.

[00:22:11]Every day we get a new lamb.

[00:22:15]Yikes. um call it call it artificial general intelligence or AGI or artificial super intelligence ASI.

[00:22:26]In the coming two or five years, AI may equal or surpass human ability to perform many cognitive tasks.

[00:22:37]AI leaders say we may be approaching an inflection point.

[00:22:45]and he says many other like things in this speech in inflection point AGI andor uh ASI.

[00:22:58]So again, we're we're doing this video because I got the email saying that there was this earthquake um at the site of this hypers scale data center in Utah. 40,000 acres producing as much heat every day as uh what was it again?

[00:23:21]23 atomic bombs.

[00:23:24]Um, and then like 16 uh 16 more or let's see 15 more gigawatts than what's needed to power the flux capacitor um of the time machine from Back to the Future.

[00:23:43]Okay, so that happened that earthquake happened in Utah as around the time within like a the maybe even the same day. I'm not sure. Well, let's see. This this has the actual date of when he spoke. Um May 26th.

[00:24:00]And then this said this said that it happened I hate it when they do this on Thursday.

[00:24:13]So I'm supposed to go to my calendar here. You're not going to be able to see it.

[00:24:18]Okay. So May 28th.

[00:24:22]Oh, May 28th was Thursday. So, I guess that's the day that it happened.

[00:24:26]Okay. So, Other Gong spoke May 26th.

[00:24:30]Then two days later, um, you have that earthquake and then that's the day that he posted that social media video.

[00:24:39]Okay, back to the speech. A high stakes public conversation is opening. uh publics want AI to be to be used safely, ethically, transparently for children, others who are vulnerable and citizens concerned for community costs and uses of water, electricity and land, and for continuing impacts on jobs, education, and opportunity.

[00:25:08]So he it's interesting he touches on uh data centers as he's talking about water, electricity, land. Again, I don't know how I feel about it. It's we need to do it. I think we can't just be like, well, we've reached the end of technology. This is as far as we can go.

[00:25:27]Uh we are now going to be like the Amish and we're not going to have AI. I I don't think that that's an option. just sorry I don't have the answer but um we have to be wise about this and then beyond just the data centers jobs education um children the vulnerable oh my gosh uh terminator situations okay faith leaders have much to contribute we we need enduring values virtues and wisdom to anchor AI with moral compass to offer all it can it can for the greater good of individuals in societies. So I I want to make the note right here. He is not saying that AI is bad, evil, that we shouldn't want it, that it can uh be and it is a good thing in a lot of ways. But anyway, artificial intelligence needs to reflect faith, moral compass, and the gift of possibility.

[00:26:38]Now is the time.

[00:26:41]Where have we heard that before?

[00:26:42]President Nelson said that a number of times. Uh, now is the time to define what it means to be human. Point AI toward free, fair, and meaningful futures. Distinguish between machine decisionmaking and human conscience.

[00:26:59]uh determine accountability for AI and AI agents and recognize marketplaces and governments ultimately cannot arbitrate or legislate how we determine and live truth.

[00:27:15]Yes. Yes. Because this is a really powerful tool that some will take for truth. They'll they'll take it for absolute truth. Marketplaces, governments, and the AI that's produced by marketplaces cannot dictate what truth is. Especially spiritual truth.

[00:27:39]And then Elder Gong says, "If ever there was a time, it is now."

[00:27:46]I think he's right. I think it's serious. Earlier he said, "AI leaders say we may be approaching an inflection point.

[00:27:55]Now is the time. If ever there was a time, it is now."

[00:28:02]I I wonder you guys. I wonder if I mean, no one knows the future. You can guess.

[00:28:08]You can guess. You can have educated guesses. You can have projections. You can whatever. I I've said it a million times. No matter how smart we are, and even with AI, no one seems to be very good at predicting the future.

[00:28:22]There may be some things that you can kind of predict that are very solid, but there's like there's many other things uh that are just not predictable. Uh I don't I don't think anybody look I doubt that there were very very many people that would have been would have been able to predict what the internet would become.

[00:28:44]uh when when the internet when the internet first started, I don't think like say when it was starting to like get into the just average household, I don't think very many people could have predicted social media. I don't think that they could have predicted Facebook uh and YouTube and Instagram and Tik Tok and stuff like that.

[00:29:08]I mean, we didn't even have the concept really of smartphones.

[00:29:13]Um, we we didn't even have we didn't even have MP3 players like back in the 90s, you know. So, here we are. We have AI.

[00:29:26]What's going to be possible uh in the next 5, 10, 15 years that we can't even conceive right now or or just you just wouldn't think about it.

[00:29:38]Beyond the speed. Okay, continuing with this. Beyond the speed and scope of AI disruption is another unprecedented challenge. AI is concentrating information, technology and capital and thereby centralizing power.

[00:29:57]Concentrated centralized power infringes freedom. It undermines the sovereignty of individuals, companies and countries.

[00:30:09]The complexities of data including autonomy, integrity, privacy, security, sovereignty, and intellectual property including creativity, ownership, provenence further complicate individual, company, and country independence.

[00:30:29]Um, yeah, that's kind of a scary thought.

[00:30:34]I mean, haven't you ever wondered what would happen? And again, this is kind of sci-fi, but for all anybody knows, maybe it'll happen. What if you had somebody that has the keys and uh without anybody knowing they suddenly take control of a really powerful AI and um are able to bring the world or bring something, you know, a country under its under that person's control because they've been able to figure out some kind of scheme where it's like there's there's nothing you can do about it. I have control of the AI and unless you comply with my demands um I'm going to do X Y or Z X Y or Z that's going to just devastate the world or devastate the United States.

[00:31:23]You have to um bow down to my demands. I am now the king. I'm now the king of the United States. I'm now the king of the world. And I know there there's the people that entertain the idea of the Antichrist and that's probably the way that they think about this. I'm not going to go into the Antichrist right now. Just watch my playlist about it.

[00:31:45]Our church has never taught a single person Antichrist, but there are multiple Antichrists and um there could be a powerful individual that I don't know causes problems.

[00:31:57]Okay, continuing. These developments underscore the need for pluralistic faith and ethics AI evaluation benchmarks and moral compass in AI pluralistically portraying faith traditions accurately. Okay. Now think about our church and all the attacks on our church and all the misperceptions.

[00:32:18]Pluralistically portraying faith traditions accurately, honestly, and respectfully does not privilege one faith tradition over another or belief over non-belief.

[00:32:30]It does not seek to convert individuals.

[00:32:33]It does not um adjudicate faith claims.

[00:32:38]pluralistically benchmarking faith and ethics and AI is not an imposition of religion on AI.

[00:32:47]So I'm interested in what he's saying here for many reasons, but I want to document and understand what the church thinks about AI, how the church is going to try and manage this situation or try and influence it. Um, so one of the big concerns among all the other things that he's already talked about is how is this going to impact our church? How's going to how is it going to impact other churches?

[00:33:17]Um, because like if all the power and control and information is all centralized and then has a bias toward one group, then all of a sudden everybody using that AI system may start to develop a similar bias toward that one group. the way that it's being portrayed.

[00:33:37]Continuing, power requires responsibility, and responsibility needs humility, wisdom, and restraint.

[00:33:45]Some AI leaders say founda foundational AI models are general purpose tools, not arbiters of values.

[00:33:53]more reason that neither profit motivated technology companies nor politic politically motivated governments can be left to determine society's AI moral compass.

[00:34:09]Well, that's a that's kind of a tough one, isn't it?

[00:34:14]profit motivation and political motivation.

[00:34:20]When it comes to AI, I don't I don't know if it's if it's that easy.

[00:34:27]You think about the different governments of the world, you think about North Korea, you think about Iran, Russia, you think about whatever just all these different countries and um I don't know. All right, continuing.

[00:34:43]Here's an important part where he talks about the fact that yes, we do want AI.

[00:34:47]He says we want AI to help bridge not widen digital divides. We want AI to give rising generations hope and better futures.

[00:35:00]And we want AI to enlarge individual capacity to contribute for good. This is the spirit of the gift of every good possibility. It requires moral grounding and mor and moral compass in AI.

[00:35:15]So don't don't just go the lazy route and be like, "Oh, AI is evil. Uh we should get rid of all the data centers."

[00:35:22]So look, when it comes to these data centers, I understand. I I'm in a city where I might be impacted by the data center. Uh like I said, I don't think I'm going to hear the noise from it because I think it's far enough away. But um you know, yeah, it could make our electric our electric bill go up or the water bill.

[00:35:44]Um and I'm not gonna be too happy about that, but I feel like I've seen people become radicalized over this issue. Uh when it comes to politics, like there's always just people that take it to the nth degree and can't just act like human beings. They can't just be level-headed.

[00:36:03]like you do need to take political action where necessary, but sometimes it just gets like rabid and I can't stand that in people. So part of it is where you get into this like black and white thinking where it's like well AI it's either all good or or or all bad. And no, look for the nuance. Look the shades of gray. You can still have AI and have it be a good thing. You don't have to throw it completely out.

[00:36:34]All right, continuing a literature review of 12,000 papers dealing with bias in large language models, including subtle or implicit bias, shows that fewer than 2% of these papers uh consider religion as the primary topic of study. focused effort has reduced stark anti-Islamic and anti-semitic bias, but secular and discriminatory discriminatory bias remain in story inference and journeybased inquiry in AI models.

[00:37:12]As AI amplifies and compounds religious bias at scale, more users may misunderstand the contribution faith and belief can make to moral and ethical AI grounding.

[00:37:27]Um, I'm going to skip this next part.

[00:37:30]The video is going longer than I thought, but he just talks about the fact that there there's these universities, Baylor, BYU, Notre Dame, and yeshiva University that are working to address this issue.

[00:37:44]They're concerned with um how AI may affect how people of faith are viewed and how it represents different religions and churches. And they want it to be accurate, honest, and respectful.

[00:38:00]Um, here's another one of those phrases.

[00:38:03]He says, "At this critical juncture," so he repeats that a number of times, and I don't think that he's It's just fluff. Let's remind ourselves. Let's go back up here. He said, um, inflection point. Now is the time.

[00:38:23]If ever there was a time, it is now.

[00:38:27]And then this that we're about to read.

[00:38:32]At this critical juncture, we need what I call the gift of possibility. We want AI to expand human agency and capacity to do good, prioritize learning and admira admirable human character, and empower individuals with dignity and place as we contribute with purpose and meaning in a world of transformed work.

[00:38:56]I want AI to have moral compass that can be that can inspire and enable anyone anywhere with the gift of possibility to do good and become our best self.

[00:39:09]But he says this is a critical juncture.

[00:39:14]I'd be interested to see what you guys think about the next 5 to 10 years in AI.

[00:39:21]Do you think we're going to get to AGI?

[00:39:24]Um, do you think we're going to get to ASI? Uh, and what do you think that's going to look like? Do how do you think this is going to impact jobs? Do you think that there's there's been a lot of people that have said, well, you know, just like the industrial revol re Oh my gosh, just like the industrial revolution. Um, yeah, people lost jobs, but there's new jobs that are created because now there's different things to do. We advance and there's other things to do. Um, do you think that that's going to be the case?

[00:39:53]I I I just I feel like it's so unpredictable how this is going to impact uh the labor force and just civilization as a whole, all aspects of civilization.

[00:40:08]All right. He says, "AI that can find a needle of pattern in a massive data haystack."

[00:40:15]Which is why I love it because like I've said before, I use AI to find many needles in many hay stacks so I can make these videos and build up my spreadsheets and my knowledge base.

[00:40:30]continuing can help individuals identify and nurture what each person needs to flourish in our choices with capacity, dignity, and worth. This gift of possibility is realized as we as we ground AI personas and models with integrity of moral purpose and practice ends and means are connected when values, goals, and operational responses for AI personas. And then he goes through a list of five things. I'm not going to read, you can pause and read this or just the link for this is in the description box below, but these are like I guess these are like the five main five of of the main concerns. Uh what what the church would want of AI.

[00:41:19]Number one, protect and promote human moral agency.

[00:41:24]Number two, imbue and establish moral compass. Number three, disclose AI transparency.

[00:41:34]Number four, preserve human ability to pause.

[00:41:39]Uh he mean and he what he means by that is he tells a story about a Jeopardy uh champion in the fact that we need to pause. We need to like do our own thinking. I think that's basically what Jeopardy cha Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings said a major difference between himself and Watson the computer was he Jennings could hesitate. Humans need to reflect, pause, question, even doubt ourselves before we push the button.

[00:42:12]Yeah. Because that that helps us grow.

[00:42:14]We need to work through things. Um Yeah.

[00:42:20]And and I don't know it it's also implied here that maybe that's something that machines aren't so great at, at least not now, where we receive genuine uh creativity and inspiration to do things. Uh I don't think that any computer, any AI model or anything gets inspiration.

[00:42:46]Um certainly not revelation.

[00:42:49]Okay. Number five, mitigate AI tendencies to a will.

[00:42:55]Okay. Mitigate AI tendencies to a will to power bias, deceit, narcissism, sickopancy, self preservation.

[00:43:09]So, I have gone ahead and I've added this to my spreadsheet called quotes A through Z. Uh this is row 62 for artificial intelligence. I also have another quote from Elder Cook, but the other three are from Elder Gong. And um I'm going to be really interested to see how this progresses over time.

[00:43:36]Um uh frankly, what not just with AI, but with so many things, I've never felt so uncertain about the future. Not necessarily in a bad way, but there's just so many moving pieces. We've seen so many interesting things happen with the church. We've seen so many interesting things happen geopolitically and in nature and in society and with technology. Um it it just feels like things are moving really fast and things are really unpredictable and I wouldn't be I wouldn't be afraid about it. We know that the second coming is going to happen for one and I think it's going to happen sooner sooner than later. But regardless of the second coming, uh we just need to rely on God. We need to we need to keep the commandments, be on the covenant path, be in places of safety and refuge, which is our homes, which should be a holy place. We should keep it keep it as a holy place and um make sure that the spirit can be here. We need to be in church on Sundays and whenever there's activities and stuff like that, go to the temple as frequently as you can. Uh this is where you'll find peace and safety and you'll receive the spirit which will direct you. It'll guide you. It'll help you stay safe. It'll help you navigate these crazy, chaotic, unpredictable times.

[00:45:02]So, I'm not worried about it. All right.

[00:45:04]Well, that's going to be it for this one. I'll talk to you guys later. Heat.

[00:45:08]Hey, Heat.