Why Christian Intellectuals Are So Unsettled by AI - The Atlantic
archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 26 Jun 2026 13:30:07 UTC All snapshots from host www.theatlantic.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee SKIP TO CONTENT Site Navigation Popular Latest Newsletters Sign In Subscribe CULTURE There Is Already a Word for the Deep Moral Failures of AI It’s sin. By Tyler Austin Harper Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic JUNE 2, 2026 SHARE SAVE Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 7:17 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. For the past few years, I’ve been troubled by a word, and that word is sin. I keep reaching for it, because it seems to be the only term strong enough to describe the new forms of dehumanization that artificial intelligence has introduced—even though calling something a sin sounds embarrassing to me, like throwing salt over your shoulder or stowing a lucky penny in your pocket. The problem is, I don’t know what else to