Liberation or Domination?

Every technology arrives with a promise of liberation. The printing press would free people from ignorance. The industrial revolution would free people from scarcity. The digital revolution would democratize information and give everyone a voice.

And each revolution also created new forms of domination. New concentrations of power. New categories of the disposable.

Exodus 5 shows us what domination looks like in practice. Pharaoh doesn't just enslave — he accelerates the work while removing the resources. Make the same bricks. Find your own straw. And when the people cannot keep up, he calls them lazy.

This is the logic of exploitation. And it is alive in the age of AI.

The companies building AI promise it will free us from drudgery. And it may. For some. But who will be freed, and who will be told their skills are now worthless? Whose creativity will be compensated, and whose will be harvested for training data without consent or credit?

Amos does not mince words: God is not impressed by your worship if your economic practices crush the vulnerable. The spiritual and the material are not separate categories.

Luke 4 is Jesus' first public statement of mission: good news to the poor, freedom for the prisoner, sight for the blind, liberation for the oppressed. This is not a metaphor. It is a program.

The spiritual test of AI is simple: Who becomes free?