{"id":253384,"date":"2026-05-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/the-amish-are-embracing-chatgpt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:55:08","slug":"the-amish-are-embracing-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/the-amish-are-embracing-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-23 10:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Can\u2019t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech<\/p>\n

AI is reportedly making inroads in a famously tech-cautious community: the Amish.<\/p>\n

According to a fascinating story by New York Magazine, the men of Holmes County, Ohio\u2019s Amish community \u2014\u00a0the area with the largest concentration of Amish people in the country \u2014 have embraced generative AI as a new tool to do things like write emails, draft contracts, create spreadsheets, and otherwise manage their oft-family-run businesses in fields like manufacturing, construction, and agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started using it soon after it came out, more or less testing it,\u201d Ian Wengerd, an Amish father-of-six who owns a metal-fabrication company, told NY Mag. \u201cThe more I used it, the more I thought this could actually be a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wengerd, whose business employs about 30 staffers, explained to the magazine that his business gets \u201cinvolved in some state work, federal work, private work.\u201d In other words, he\u2019s busy \u2014\u00a0and he says that without tech, chatbots included, he and his many employees would be out of a job.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us to try to do business with just a fax machine and a voicemail,\u201d said Ian, \u201cI\u2019d have to shut my doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all Amish folk enjoy access to the internet, and when they do, it\u2019s generally quite limited. (One expert, historian Marcus Yoder, told NY Mag that he believes that fewer than half of Holmes County\u2019s Amish population is online, and of that population, he estimates that under 10 percent have given AI a whirl.) <\/p>\n

Not a single person NY Mag spoke with uses a smartphone;\u00a0they either use zhuzh-ed up \u201cdumb phones\u201d or flip phones. Their digital life is also heavily filtered through Christian censoring services and almost entirely restricted to the workplace. But media censorship aside, that stark line between the workplace and the home, interestingly, seems to…<\/p>\n

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