Talk: The robots are coming!

If you want to predict the future, see where the smart money is going - and a huge amount is going into robotics and AI

How can Christians relate the world of the Bible — a world dominated by agricultural imagery and metaphors from nature — with our own 21st-century context, where technological advances proceed at breakneck speed and humanity seems ever more alienated from the natural world? We need to find a way of connecting the historic Christian faith with our modern world, and in particular the questions it poses about what it means to be human.

Listen below to a sermon I preached at All Souls Church, in central London, in July 2017 on how Christians might approach the technological revolution in robotics and artificial intelligence.

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