Today we continued our Remaining Faithful in a Fractured Nation: A Progressive Christian Journey Toward the Midterms sermon series by spending some time thinking about the impacts of artificial intelligence and crypto which has concentrated massive wealth and power in a small few tech billionaires.  Nine of the top 10 richest people in the world come from this sector.  Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is on the near horizon and its power could threaten our well being because this technology will do anything necessary to survive (“to avoid getting unplugged”) and lacks an adequate moral framework to constrain its reach.  This reality is forcing us to grapple with what makes us human, what we need to do to maintain dignity of life, and how we can continue to trust in God to bind us together as we live together in a life-giving community that prioritizes love, compassion, and mutual support over power and control.