Doyt recently sat down for an hour-long conversation on the Love Conquers Fear podcast. Asked why he does what he does, he answered the way he answers most things: not with a tidy testimony, but with a story about driving to baptize a newborn in an incubator, a theory about who actually wrote the Gospel of John, and a case for exactly where artificial intelligence runs out of road. Different stories. One thread.
Working from Luke 10:27, Doyt lays out five components of personhood: heart, mind, body, neighbor, and soul. Mind, body, and neighbor are the material, functional parts of being human, and it’s exactly there AI and robotics will outperform us. Heart and soul are different in kind, not degree. The soul is God’s real estate alone: given equally, at birth, regardless of intelligence, wealth, or capability. To be born is to have a soul. AI is not born. AI cannot be born. And this is why AI be loved into certainty the way Lazarus was and AI cannot say thank you and mean it.
Asked what he’d tell people navigating an age of AI and quantum computing, he offers three things:
- Find an in-person, uncurated community, and show up with low expectations;
- Let hope guide you, since hope isn’t something you see but something you move toward;
- And expect joy—not the absence of hard things, but a steady undercurrent running beneath them.
And then, almost as an aside, the daily practice: stop, for a moment, and say thank you. That’s old school, simple Christian stuff, and it’s exactly what an exponential age can’t compute its way around.