03/01/2026
Francolin Farm Minute March 01 2026. Humanity has decisions that need to be made.
Raise your hand if you think AI will benefit you in the short term. Keep your hand up if you think it will greatly compromise you (and your kids) in the long term.
If your hand remained up, you too have some decisions to make.
I have asked this question dozens of times and virtually everyone keeps their hands up throughout. When in history has a short term gain been acceptable for a long term compromise? In fact, our stewardship and ethics should be focused on long term always. Leaving things better than we found them.
So I’m off the realization that resistance is necessary. There maturation of parallel economies must be a responsibility we wear to meet the needs of each other in the very, near future.
We should spend our time:
- Building for the long term. Even if that means redefining what success is. Honestly, we probably had it defined wrong all these years anyway.
- Embracing the authentic. Which natural requires us to reject the artificial. We are finite beings and the days and years we have left require choosing. I choose the authentic.
- Communing and conversing with each other instead of computing and scrolling.
- Joyfully being uncomfortable and “analog” and avoiding efficiency as the driving factor for all things.
- Developing local, deep relationships with neighbors and like-minded people instead of attending to global, shallow ones that don’t share your desires.
Ultimately, we must live how the real God of wisdom wants us to and not the ways of artificial intelligence. His word, the Bible instructs us all how to do so in truth.
Look, AI will never authentically create a “vine and fig for everyone to sit under and live in peace without fear” so I choose to want nothing to do with it. Micah 4:4
Let’s all figure out how to do this…together, in person, find your community and start digging in. Feels like the future depends on you and I making the right decision.
