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I am grateful to the editorial team at Mere Orthodoxy for their consideration of new contributors in publishing my essay Exercising Dominion After Generative Artificial Intelligence. The essay discusses how generative AI can sometimes seem to mimic the uniquely human work of exercising dominion in creation.

Abstract: Theologians and religious bodies attest to the rising influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in governments, the economy, and the lives of the people of God. Through the covenant with Adam, God gave humans the blessing of dominion and capabilities unique to creation to till the earth. Today, humans retain the image of God but AI increasingly displaces human functions with coordinated agency. Using Hebrew language exegesis of passages from Genesis, Exodus, and Lev