Faith, Doubt, and the Value of Spirituality in the Age of AI

Excerpt from the latest Team Human Kibbitz Room conversation

Douglas Rushkoff
7 min readNov 22, 2023

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Here’s a short excerpt from our most recent Q/A salon in the Team Human Kibbitz room. Listen to the whole show by clicking on the player above.

Dave:
My name is Dave. I just have a thing about putting pretend names on discord, I guess. Super excited to be here, love the community. I am a theology professor living outside of Boston. And I want to talk about your monologue of “changing the register.” I’ll throw a couple balls into the air here and then I would just love to — I’m also a musician — so I’d love to hear you riff on some of that stuff.

So I actually am just coming from a class where I’ve been really frustrated because I feel like they see the professor as an enemy. And so I was talking to them about how I see us as co-collaborators. We’re experiencing things together. I’m just trying to “change the register” of what’s happening in the classroom.

Even broader than that, one of the other groups I’m part of is what call theopoetics: trying to change the conversation in religion from theology (which is about logic and logos and a…

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Douglas Rushkoff

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm