Andrew Ondo

Christian engagement with artificial intelligence has considered two questions: (1) whether machines might bear the image of God, and (2) what machine outputs do to their consumers. A third question is more urgent and unasked: what happens to the bearing of the image in the practitioner whose competencies an agentic system absorbs? Drawing on comprehensive capability collapse (a practiced competency converted into a query) and its limiting case, Artificial Persona Interchange (a person's voice and judgment reconstituted from their corpus), the article contends the collapse is not merely a labor problem but an anthropological one: what is lost is not efficiency but the exercised particularity through which the imago Dei is borne, and the church must name that loss before it is normalized. It develops a Reformation account of the person-works relation, answers the strongest objections, and states what the church must refuse, retain, and reteach.

This project examined the efficacy of biblically informed, trauma-aware, peer-to-peer spiritual care systems within the solely digital ministry context of Groundwire. The study addressed the growing need for effective pastoral care in digitally mediated environments, where formation and fragmentation occur simultaneously and traditional leadership structures are often absent. The purpose was to design, implement, and evaluate a protocol that could cultivate the core concepts of resilience, intentionality, and wisdom among participants, reinforcing both practical resilience and retention. An action-oriented, primarily qualitative methodology was utilized. The final sample population consisted of eleven Groundwire participants engaged in peer-to-peer care on Discord, with comparative metrics drawn from ECHO. Data collection included narrative accounts, surveys, and thematic analysis of participant interactions. Scripture, prayer and worship, and community engagement were intentionally employed as the primary tools of formation, ensuring that spiritual care was both biblically grounded and experientially accessible. The intervention was implemented within Groundwire's ministry ecosystem, and results demonstrated that when trauma-informed awareness, narrative listening, and mission-anchored presence were integrated with these tools, participants reported deeper trust, sustained engagement, and measurable growth in the identified core concepts. Summative findings indicate that the research protocol proved efficacious in strengthening the quality and sustainability of peer-to-peer spiritual care in the identified context. Moreover, the principles validated herein are transferable to other digital ministries. This project contributes to the broader field of digital ministry by offering a replicable framework that integrates theological reflection, clinical insight, and systems analysis, equipping ministries to engage meaningfully in digital spaces.

The prevailing account of artificial intelligence (AI) in analytic work is augmentation – the machine as force multiplier, extending the reach of a competent human practitioner. This article argues that for a specific and growing class of systems – agentic AI, which plans, executes, and iterates analytic tasks end to end – the augmentation account is structurally wrong. Under sustained end-to-end delegation, agentic AI does not augment the open-source intelligence (OSINT) analyst; it collapses the analyst. By absorbing the exercise of the correlative reasoning that constituted the tradecraft, it converts a practiced human competency into a query, producing operators who can direct an intelligence product they can no longer independently produce or validate. The article distinguishes comprehensive capability collapse from deskilling and its neighboring constructs; traces the mechanism through the OSINT case; identifies the verification cliff as its most operationally dangerous feature; examines the aviation automation-dependency record as precedent, mechanism, and warning; treats voice and persona recreation as the limiting case; and proposes practice-preserving countermeasures, with their outcome measures, for organizations that intend to retain not merely their outputs but their competence.