From staff writer Emily Belz: The Stanford University students I profiled today, who built an AI tool for high schoolers, pitched me the story themselves. They sent me an email that was two concise paragraphs: introducing themselves, then telling me their story and why it would be interesting for our audience. They made clear they had read CT, so they were familiar with what we would be looking for. Nicely done, Gen Z!
 
That effective communication showed me that these students who built a writing algorithm to coach high schoolers knew something about writing. 

“What really made our technology better and able to serve these students better is the human component,” Stanford grad Hadassah Betapudi told me about their tool. “It’s AI that we prompted as humans, that we gave guardrails, that we set limits on.” 

From my long conversation with these smart Christians, I would surmise that their AI has some thoughtful guardrails. They put a lot of thought into why Christians should use AI and how their technology would help or hurt those on the margins. The development of AI will have some negative consequences, but we want to cover people who want to use it well, too.