AI can simulate a teacher, but it can’t shepherd a soul

Education in America is changing at a speed that a few can imagine even ten years ago.

Artificial intelligence is deployed to train machines to teach our children. School systems place gender ideology and political agenda in their curriculum by showing little respect for parental inputs.

At the same time, traditional values are pushed into margins and our students are caught in the middle.

We witness a moment that requires urgent attention: will we protect the spirit of education or will we deliver it to machines and ideologies that do not know the human heart?

We must move now to prevent AI from becoming a distant Trojan horse

The latest announcement initiated by Microsoft, Openai and Anthropic AI supported “Teacher Education Academy” is a sign of what will happen. At first glance, it sounds innovative, even useful. But the deeper question is: What is the education really for?

Education is not only about giving information. About shaping lives. At best, it creates a character, teaches to distinguish and prepares students to serve their communities with integrity. Such a formation cannot be automated. Requires a relationship. Requires mentoring. Requires people.

We are not anti-technology at Southeastern University. In fact, we actively investigate the ethical ways of using AI to serve students and improve access to learning.

It has the power to lead America’s AI revolution – and the leadership of realizing this

However, we draw an open limit: AI can help educators, but should never replace them. Because no machine, no matter how advanced, can not love a student, model virtue, or lead a young adult to a purpose life.

We believe that each student is made in the image of God and that shaping a spirit requires more than a circuit board.

The deeper danger in this shift is not only logistics, but philosophical. When we deliver the teacher’s role to algorithms, we also give the power to decide what is taught, how it is taught and what values are emphasized. In a period in which AI has already reflected and strengthened the ideological prejudice, this should concern every parent and educator in America.

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Are we ready to determine how unleaded technology companies have learned, think and believe in future generations with their own world views and profit motives?

About more than these machines. Education itself.

We must take back education as a deep person, a deep moral initiative. We should raise teachers, we should not change. We must ensure that classes are not only informed, not only for a career, but also remain in the fields where they are prepared for a call.

Now it’s time to bravely lead Christian colleges and universities. We must maintain the relational core of learning, model the real search model without compromise, and remind our nation that a spirit formation cannot be external.

Let’s use the technology, but it can never be used. Let us establish a education that reflects the dignity of each student and the responsibility that we have to shape them with wisdom, courage and belief.

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