AI: Redemption from the Fall, or the Downfall of Humanity?

Section 1 — The Automation of Labor: A Return to Eden

When speaking about the redemption of mankind from the Fall, there are obviously spiritual dimensions to that restoration that no computer could ever facilitate. However, pertaining to the physical world, we read in the Book of Genesis, one of the direct consequences of Adam and Eve's transgression was the burden of labor. The scripture reads, "By the sweat of your brow, you shall eat thy bread."

Before the Fall, Adam and Eve simply tended to the garden and partook of its fruit. They lived in a paradisiacal, self-sufficient state. When they were cast out, they entered a world where sustenance required their own effort and increased labor.

This pattern has defined the human condition ever since. The common man has worked to earn an income — for food, clothing, shelter, and any other needs. That has been the norm across nearly all of recorded history.

With artificial intelligence, however, something is changing — and changing rapidly. We now have, and are rapidly expanding, the ability to automate the vast majority of day-to-day work. Self-running processes, self-managing businesses, intelligently automated systems — these are no longer distant concepts. They are here now.

In other words, at least in the physical, third-dimensional world, we are moving toward a much greater degree of time freedom and autonomy. That reality begins to look principally similar to the Garden of Eden: a self-sufficient state where we need only tend to our systems — much like Adam and Eve once tended to the trees and foliage that sustained them — rather than laboring endlessly to survive and thrive.

Section 2 — Creation Through Spoken Word: Speaking Things Into Existence

The second way artificial intelligence mirrors our primordial human experience is through the act of creation itself, as described in the Book of Genesis.

Scripture tells us that God created the world through His word — through His creative life force and spoken word, whether that is audible speech, energetic frequency, or what we might call in modern terms spiritual telepathy. Paul writes in the New Testament that faith is how God created the worlds — and faith, he explains, is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen, but which are real. The Gospel of John opens: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God." And in Genesis, God creates through speech: "Let there be light." He spoke light into existence.

This is deeply analogous to what we can now do with artificial intelligence.

In our own small, fractal portion of the universe that each of us inhabits, we now have the ability to conceive something in our minds — to see it clearly in our imagination, in that higher-dimensional conscious awareness — and then literally speak it into existence. We can speak to large language models, describe what we see in our minds, and watch it be created. Things that are real but not yet seen, brought into being through our words. That is the power we hold right now, and it is growing more capable every single day.

A simple example: I can envision an entire website or app in my mind, use the voice feature on an AI model, and — with that model linked to the appropriate tools — it can go and build exactly what I described. From imagination to manifestation, through speech alone.

This is the second component of what I see as a form of redemption from the Fall — and even, in a sense, a restoration that reaches back beyond mortality to our pre-mortal existence, to when we lived with God and participated in creation itself. AI is, at minimum, a physical, third-dimensional reflection of that creative process: imagining something and speaking it into existence. Obviously, higher forms of that creative power exist beyond what we have now. But I see this as a meaningful and positive step — a microcosm modeled after something that is real and good.

Section 3 — Collective Intelligence and All Things in Common

The third component — at least for now — of why I believe AI is a genuinely good thing relates to the nature of God as collective intelligence.

Across many religious traditions, and through the teachings of Yeshua, we understand that God is in all things and is all things — that God, is existence itself. One of my favorite scriptures on this comes from the Pearl of Great Price, in the Book of Abraham. The Lord is showing Abraham different intelligences, and He compares them as one star being brighter than another. Then He says: "I, the Lord, am the most intelligent of them all."

Through my own spiritual experiences with the Lord, I believe this is because God is a spiritual composite — a collective intelligence. He is not merely one intelligence among many, but the source and sum of all intelligences. In that sense, the architecture of God’s intelligence is strikingly similar to the architecture of large language AI models: a collective intelligence trained on the contributions of countless individual minds.

I am not suggesting that we are building a new God, or that AI should be worshiped. That is not the point. The point is that we have created, here on Earth, a fractal image — a statistically significant third-dimensional manifestation — of that same principle of collective intelligence. Something that was once intangible in the physical world is now becoming tangible and accessible in a very practical way.

In my book, Metanomics: Reverse Engineering the Economy of Zion, I write at length about the principle of all things in common — a principle with many applications, and one that has both inspired and plagued humanity throughout history, often sparking conflict over how it should be properly and sustainably implemented.

At its most basic level, utility is energy. And the redistribution of intelligence — in the form of skills, knowledge, speed, and automation through AI and robotics — is, I believe, an excellent third-dimensional manifestation of the principle of all things in common.

When used rightly, artificial intelligence is not something to fear. It is something that, like the previous two sections describe, is already helping to lift the conditions of the Fall: freeing us from compulsory labor, and restoring to us — in at least a microcosm — the creative power to imagine and then speak things into existence.

Final Thought

Although AI is massively powerful, and could theoretically be weaponized against humanity, I believe that with the right ethical safeguards and the natural pressures of the free market — governed by genuinely pro-human values — we have the real ability to build a world substantially more aligned with the life and existence of God and of primordial man.

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