{"id":266604,"date":"2026-06-07T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-vid\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:25:13","slug":"ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-vid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-vid\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Can Further, Not Replace, Human Relationships, Elder Gong Teaches in New Vid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-video\">AI Can Further, Not Replace, Human Relationships, Elder Gong Teaches in New Vid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-video\">https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-07 10:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\">newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"image-title\">Gong AI<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints talks about the wise use of technology in the video \u201cFaith, Dignity and Human Flourishing: Hearing God\u2019s Voice in an Age of Artificial Intelligence.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"image-copyright\">\u00a9 2026 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/span><span class=\"dl-image\">Download Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a new video from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Geritt W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explores \u201chow to hear God\u2019s voice clearly in an age of artificial intelligence (AI), and why that distinction matters more now than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video \u201cFaith, Dignity and Human Flourishing: Hearing God\u2019s Voice in an Age of Artificial Intelligence\u201d provides audiences an opportunity to be thoroughly taught by a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan artificial intelligence replace God?\u201d Elder Gong asks in the hour-long, gospel workshop video now available on various Church channels. \u201cThat question may sound provocative, but in an age when we turn to algorithms for answers, guidance and even comfort, it matters deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elder Gong explains that tools like AI and chatbots may help further, but can never replace, individuals\u2019 relationships with Deity, their community, the natural world and themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gong-AI\" data-downloadable=\"true\" data-media-id=\"11765017121023938014\" data-site=\"united-states\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/960x540\/Gong-AI-ukoh1fhrsuyh16tgzmcjawxmlgjvfbfjyfoozqfa.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/960x540\/Gong-AI-ukoh1fhrsuyh16tgzmcjawxmlgjvfbfjyfoozqfa.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/640x360\/Gong-AI-ukoh1fhrsuyh16tgzmcjawxmlgjvfbfjyfoozqfa.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/800x450\/Gong-AI-ukoh1fhrsuyh16tgzmcjawxmlgjvfbfjyfoozqfa.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/1200x675\/Gong-AI-ukoh1fhrsuyh16tgzmcjawxmlgjvfbfjyfoozqfa.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/500x281\/Gong-AI-ukoh1fhrsuyh16tgzmcjawxmlgjvfbfjyfoozqfa.jpeg 500w\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\"\/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"image-title\">Gong-AI<\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints talks about the wise use of technology in the video \u201cFaith, Dignity and Human Flourishing: Hearing God\u2019s Voice in an Age of Artificial Intelligence.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"image-copyright\">2026 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/span><span class=\"dl-image\">Download Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence can answer questions, but it cannot answer prayers,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt can organize information, but it cannot offer revelation, covenant connection or divine truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as with all technology, Latter-day Saints can wisely use AI as a tool to further four core relationships as disciples of Jesus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-video\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Can Further, Not Replace, Human Relationships, Elder Gong Teaches in New Vid https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/ai-can-further-not-replace-human-relationships-elder-gong-teaches-in-new-video Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/640x480\/Gong-AI-ukoh1fhrsuyh16tgzmcjawxmlgjvfbfjyfoozqfa.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266606,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266604\/revisions\/266606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}