How Should Christians Approach Progress in Technology?

As Nick Bostrom points out in “The Vulnerable World Hypothesis,” technology is not limited to mechanical devices but, when construed “in its broadest sense,” can include “scientific ideas, institutional designs, organizational techniques, ideologies, concepts, and memes.” While artificial intelligence (AI) is the technology du jour, it seems likely that another innovation will stand as a shining symbol of human progress tomorrow (assuming AI doesn’t destroy the world). […]