Now that Embry’s two-year term as Senior Warden at All Soul’s Episcopal Church is up, she has been busying herself with finishing up writing the history of All Souls Church. Just for fun she fed the basic facts she had been gathering regarding liturgy at the church into her computer, hit the “Google Copilot” key and in less than a minute appeared two pages of perfectly worded prose, which was accurate enough for any final report. Oh, my Goodness!

 AI can certainly be your friend. If you have ever been a church goer or perhaps more unlikely still attend church, think of how many bad sermons you may have heard. AI could fix that in an instant if a clergy person identified to AI a Biblical chapter and verse, gave it a preferred length or time limit, the intended audience (liberal, conservative, MAGA, etc.) and bingo, out would come a meaningful and compelling sermon. Who knows, this may already be happening. Ditto for teachers, college professors, writers, editors and many other professionals. Your friend is patiently waiting for you. Just provide instructions and guardrails.

But be careful. Ai can be crafty. This week we are with our son Andrew’s family at a beach town on the New Jersy coast. Just for fun, his wife, Karen, suggested we feed AI  one of my recent blog posts critical of Trump and ask AI to rewrite the post in the style and language of the President.

Here is the blog post Karen fed to AI:

Every day it seems there is a new revelation of a Trump atrocity or excess. This week it was about all the money he and his family have made the past year, most of it after he was inaugurated—a net worth increase to the tune of $2.9 billion, according to Forbes (April 2025)—and we are now only at the beginning of his second term. Trump casinos, Trump championship golf courses, and Trump high rise luxury hotels seem to be on the drawing boards all over the planet, and there appears to be no end in sight. The new “Executive Branch” in Georgetown, a club just started by his oldest son, which hints of special access to the President for a mere $500,000 membership fee, is reportedly already a hot ticket item, and Trump’s bit coin business is booming. And having your own personal, multibillion dollar, luxury jumbo jet, compliments of Qatar, is shrugged off by the President as nothing unusual. Nor has there been a peep of outrage among members of the Grand Old Party, which in days of yore has stood for good government, anti-corruption, and fiscal responsibility. Fearing being “primaried out” by MAGA extremist candidates financed by Elon Musk and other billionaires, formerly moderate Republican senators and congressmen have caved. Using Trump’s words, “The world has never seen anything like it.”

Here’s that passage rewritten by AI in a Trump-style voice:

The fake news media is at it again, folks! They’re going absolutely crazy – and I mean crazy – because we’re so successful, so incredibly successful that even they can’t ignore it anymore. Forbes – and by the way,  they used to hate me, now they have to admit the truth – they’re saying we’ve increased our net worth by $2.9 billion! Can you believe it? $2.9 billion!

The Republicans are finally learning how to win again! They see what we’ve accomplished and they’re saying “This is how you make America great!” No more of the old, weak politics. We’re making deals like nobody’s ever made before. The world has never seen anything like it – and that’s the truth!

Be careful. AI  can also be your enemy. You may get more than what you asked for. And who knows how much damage has already been done and how much more is to come? 

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