AI Fluency for the Faithful — Discernment for a Fast-Changing World

Wise as Serpents

COACH

DR. MICHAEL LITMAN, PH.D.

Master Computer Scientist

"Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16, ESV). AI is neither a god to fear nor a toy to ignore — it is a powerful, fallible tool loose in a fallen world. In ten short lessons you will learn to use it well, test everything it tells you, spot the deepfakes and scams built with it, and hold fast to the truth — fluent in the technology, anchored in the Word.

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10

Lessons

<30 min

Each

$0

Tools required

OT+NT

Scripture woven in

A ten-lesson AI-fluency course for the practicing Christian adult. Each lesson takes under thirty minutes: plain teaching, one hands-on practice panel right on the page, one real exercise with a free AI tool, Scripture from the Old and New Testaments, and discussion questions ready for a small group. You will learn what AI really is (and is not), how to use it for daily work and Bible study without outsourcing your soul, and how to stand firm against the deepfakes, scams, and misinformation the same technology powers. Free tools only; nothing to buy.

— SYLLABUS

Part One

Not Gods, Not Ghosts: What AI Really Is

What artificial intelligence actually is — a powerful, human-made pattern machine — and what it is not: not a mind, not a soul, not an image-bearer, and nothing to either worship or fear.

Speak Plainly: Your First Conversations with AI

How to talk to a free AI assistant so it actually helps — say who it's for, what you need, and how it should sound — and refine until the words land.

The Confident Guesser: How the Machine Actually Works

No math, no code: how an AI predicts the next word from patterns, why it sounds sure of everything, and why fluent is not the same as true.

Test Everything: The Berean Habit

Hallucinations, invented facts, and fabricated citations — and the verification habit that catches them, practiced by the Bereans long before the machines arrived.

AI and the Word: A Help, Never a Substitute

Using AI well for Bible study — background, cross-references, reading plans, memory drills — while guarding what must never be delegated: the reading, the praying, the meeting with God.

Part Two

Seeing Is Not Believing: Deepfakes

Cloned voices, fabricated videos, synthetic photos: how AI fakes the evidence of your own eyes and ears, and the out-of-band verification habit that defeats it.

Wolves at the Door: AI-Powered Scams

The scams AI has supercharged — the panicked family call, the pastor gift-card email, the fake charity — and the calm, simple defenses: pause, verify, never share the never-share list.

Before You Share: Truth in a Flood of Content

AI floods the feed with plausible content. The eighth commandment applies to the share button: a before-you-share discipline that keeps you from bearing false witness by accident.

Redeeming the Time: AI in Daily Work and Home

Honest, practical AI fluency for ordinary life — letters, plans, budgets, learning new skills — done as stewardship: AI drafts, you verify, and your name means you checked.

Standing Firm: Your Rule of Life for the Age of AI

The technology will keep changing; your principles need not. Write a personal rule of life for AI — what you will use it for, what you will always verify, and what belongs to God and neighbor alone.