In the future, we will be posed with the questions: Do we want to edit our genomes so we can produce children who are smarter, diseaseless, with the potential to live longer, or do we want to continue as God has created us to be — made in His image, with Him as the author and finisher of our destiny? To those fully persuaded  about the Word of God and for those who are fully converted and walking out the lifelong transformation of going from glory to glory, this will not and should not be on the table for discussion. However, this is not about just you; it is about your own kids, and their decision-making schema will depend uniquely on the values that you sow now that shape their identity and how you take control of their options as we navigate around the eye of the storm that we are already in now.

This will take you placing aside the existential threats that you are facing. I want to acknowledge them because they are real. You do not have to scroll for more than 60 seconds before you are inundated with stories of job losses with little severance after years of faithful service. Many are finding themselves spending through their savings and saddled with debt and networks that are fragile, with numerous friends and friends of friends that are experiencing the same thing.

However, place those stories on pause and lean in close. How much do you understand about the patterns of innovation? Why is this important to understand them? If you do not understand the patterns of innovation and how what is happening now is verrry different, you will underestimate the fullness of the challenges facing your child in the very near future.

Stay with me… it will make sense.

If you understand the cycles of innovation and why the evolution of AI to super intelligence is so special, you will become a sophisticated cowboy about everything concerning your kid because you will understand that you are all they have in this new wild, wild west. There are laws of technology that have similar characteristics over time. It may start slow, but over time it accelerates and penetrates many levels of society. Let’s consider some of the greatest impacts of technology — some you may remember; others you can Google and find out about. Silk making was a well-kept secret in China for centuries until two monks shared it, and it proliferated in a myriad of ways around the world, moving from clothing in China to other Asian countries to Europe. Then it deepened. While it started in clothing, it was then used in all forms of clothing, moving on to being blended in fabrics, upholstery, accessories, luxury fabrics, interior design, and medicine (surgical sutures, biodegradable implants). The list is long. First fast, then it went deeper into our society.

This is the same pattern with other technologies. In 1983, there were only a few hundred computers connected to the internet. Now we have 14 billion and many other technologies that have been built on it, such as social media, online videos, YouTube, and smartphones — creating needs and desires for new services, businesses, and opportunities. Uber, anyone? We see the same time scope, speed, and societal consequences of breadth and depth with other technologies in history, such as the combustion engine, printing press, the agricultural revolution, and the industrial revolution.

Everything became cheaper, more efficient, and society changed in a myriad of ways with each innovation. Once it began, it never stopped, as Mustafa Suleyman shares in his book The Coming Wave.

The meaning of the current revolution we are in now (the reach for AGI and super intelligence) has consequences that will be very different for you and your children for two reasons: deep learning and large language models.

Deep learning is a direct affront to one of the core ideas that makes us human — which is our ability to think and reason, as well as our ability to look at the past and predict what could happen in the future. Large language models (LLMs) are exactly what the name suggests. In 2012, AlexNet arrived on the scene with deep learning — neural networks modeled after the human brain. This means a system that is trained on a lot of data, then shares the formation in a network that functions like neurons coding the language with “colored pixels,” then sharing it with other neurons in the network. What makes it so powerful is that it has the ability to notice errors, then share the update in the network of neurons. What stops me on my treadmill is that it has tokens. Tokens are its own language for organizing and processing language. Using an “attention map,” the LLM learns how to process and organize what it is learning for reuse. Yes! The neural network becomes smarter over time. Why is this important? It is mimicking the way humans learn, without the God factor, of course 🙂

Today, this technology is at the heart of large language models (LLMs) — programs that learn information by organizing and relating it to new information over time through algorithms. These LLMs gave us ChatGPT-2 in the summer of 2020. Speed forward, we certainly see the difference between GPT-4 and GPT-2. The ability to reason has improved significantly with each iteration.

But let’s rest with this version for a moment. Just with this version, GPT-4, we played with a chatbot (which is what it is essentially) that could work with images and code, create 3-D computer games, write business plans, ace bar exams and the GRE, and understand complex reasoning that would take teams of people with varying degrees of intelligence and experience.

At the time of me writing this post, we currently have ChatGPT-5.2. I tried to obtain the exact amount of data it was trained on; however, it is not being published widely. I only found vague notes about the number of tokens and data.

As a person of faith and a leader making decisions for other people’s children, I have many wonderings, especially with so many advertisements and programs popping up telling us we can become 10x the human we are today. It does not mean that I think we should not learn to use AI and look for opportunities to leverage it in the education of our kids and help them become “creators” or entrepreneurs. I believe that we have to start having more conversations with them about how it works and start gathering together to share and plan how we will navigate alongside this new wave.`

Now that I have shared this foundation, in this next post, I will invite you to think about how you may start sharing and coaching your child about these emerging technologies with intention

Now that I have shared this foundation. In this next post, I will invite you to think about how you may start sharing and coaching your child about these emerging technologies with intention.

Sources:

Suleyman, Mustafa, and Michael Bhaskar. The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future. Crown Publishing Group, 2025

The Holy Bible: King James Version. Cambridge UP, 1769.