“Wisdom” by Robert Lewis Reid (1896), Library of Congress (digital ID highsm.02216), Washington, DC, Author/Photographer Carol Smith (PD)
The following article by clinical psychologist, Dr. Mehmoush Mohajer, appeared in the October 2025 edition of Israel: The Prophetic Connection by C4i America.
“…In today’s world, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping human life. From daily decisions like shopping and travel to complex matters such as personal relationships, career planning, and child-rearing, many people prefer to rely on algorithms rather than human wisdom and divine guidance. Yet, entrusting life entirely to machines carries significant psychological and even structural consequences for human beings.
The Value of Wisdom and Divine Guidance
Wisdom and divine guidance are humanity’s greatest assets. The Bible repeatedly emphasizes the importance of trusting in God:
‘In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight’ (Prov. 3: 6).
True guidance and lasting security are not found in data or algorithms but in trusting divine wisdom…Divine guidance ensures genuine peace and personal growth — something no algorithm can replicate.
Psychological and Neurological Consequences of Overreliance on AI
Excessive dependence on AI can have profound effects on both the brain and mental health:
1. Impaired decision-making and problem-solving
The prefrontal cortex, responsible for analysis, planning, and judgment, weakens when humans exercise these skills less frequently.
2. Reduced empathy and social skills
Brain regions such as the anterior cingulate cortex and insula become less active, diminishing the ability to process emotions and empathize with others.
3. Decreased cognitive flexibility and working memory
Limited practice in problem-solving and creative thinking restricts neural pathways, weakening memory and adaptability.
Re-life examples
- Responding to messages or managing romantic relationships using AI, without interpreting emotions independently.
- Parents relying on algorithms for child-rearing decisions, reducing direct experience and nurturing.
- Career and financial choices made solely on data, ignoring ethical values and human judgment.
AI as a Tool, not a Substitute for Divine Guidance
AI can be a valuable tool for information gathering and streamlining tasks, but it cannot replace human wisdom or divine guidance. Algorithms cannot comprehend spiritual consequences, personal growth, or moral values. Fully entrusting one’s life to AI is equivalent to handing control to an unaware entity…
Balancing Wisdom, Prayer, and Technology
The key is to integrate human wisdom, divine guidance, and technology responsibly:
- Use AI to gather information and support logical decision-making.
- Make final choices based on ethical values and through prayerful connection with the Holy Spirit.
- As Scripture warns: ‘Do not put your trust in anyone but the Lord‘ (PS. 2: 11).
This approach allows humans to lead a conscious, safe, and meaningful life while maintaining mental and spiritual growth…”
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Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
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ANNA WALDHERR A Voice Reclaimed, Surviving Child Abuse and More 
Hi Anna, I think this is the key: “AI can be a valuable tool for information gathering and streamlining tasks, but it cannot replace human wisdom or divine guidance.” AI can be a time saving tool in the hands of one who is open and obedient to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit. As in many things, there is a delicate balance required where earthly pride and God’s Holy Spirit teaching objectives are weighed. I view AI as a limited tool brush used by a painter who is guided by God’s Holy Spirit. Caution with our motives is always warranted. We guide the tool, we do not allow the tool to guide us. The minute we allow AI to become our source, rather than a tool, we error. Because I have very limited time, I personally find AI the means by which I can achieve my God directed goal in a much reduced time frame. AI presents what I instruct it to look for, with the conditions I impose, that I wish to have maintained, and I determine what and how what it presents is utilized. The last work I did, entitled “The Prophet and the Word” took about 16 weeks, rather than 16 months, to complete. It is a tool that is always to be used with caution. I direct it, it does not direct me. And, like all things, it takes time to learn how to instruct or teach the tool to respond with my God directed objectives maintained throughout. Hope this helps. Blessings!
Well said, Bruce. May our guidance always be from the Holy Spirit.
Amen to that, Anna! Blessings!
Happy Thanksgiving, Anna!
AI, big subject, lots of scary things there! I often have to remind myself that God knows, that He is in charge of the big picture.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Gabrielle! ❤
Your article, Anna, prompted me to call a small family council yesterday — the children, my wife and I — to talk about the rise of AI and the risks of becoming overly dependent on it. We began by reading your article aloud. Our conclusions can be summarised in a few points:
1. Self-deception: Those who lack knowledge in a subject are unlikely to formulate meaningful questions. This leads to answers of equally limited value and can create a self-reinforcing loop of misunderstanding.
2. Dependency: Excessive reliance on AI may result in a functional collapse of one’s own abilities. Skills not used tend to atrophy.
3. Depletion: If future generations rely solely on AI for knowledge, the overall knowledge base may gradually degrade, drifting into incoherence over time.
4. Degeneration: As you wrote — parts of the human brain do deteriorate when not exercised. I used the analogy of physical training: my eldest son knows firsthand what happens when one skips several months of football practice.
5. Methods of compensation: AI is here to stay, and younger generations have become adept at using it, astonishingly quickly. But AI can be approached as a helpful colleague rather than a replacement for ourselves. And a colleague – whether human or artificial, should be rather complementing the other colleague’s abilities than be dependent on them. I recommended to everyone present that they:
5.1. read more books and play games — board or electronic — that require genuine engagement, problem-solving and creative thinking;
5.2. remain cautious of the temptation to let their own thinking fade. While telling them a few ‘horror stories’ about what happens to a human brain that stops thinking and stops reading paper books, I realised that these scenarios are not as fictional as they should be.
5.3. Try to find joy in creating things with your own hands, and thinking them out with your own head – the personal joy of making something is, I believe, a gift given to us by our Lord, a gift not meant to be wasted.
I am always impressed by your intelligence, Hubert. But even more so by your fathering. Your children are in good hands.
Blessings,
A.
It is shocking to me how all aspects of society are moving headlong, as quickly as possible, to saturate AI into every aspect of our existence without consideration of consequences. Without a doubt, AI can be a very useful and productive resource. But my goodness, we cannot even exhibit self-control over social media; what happens when the program we interact with is able to be proactive and manipulative (many are already programmed to maximize engagement).
We truly are in a mindless era of making consequential decisions without giving a thought to them. Thank you for being a consistent voice speaking sense, Anna. Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!
Have a Happy Turkey Day, Scott!
I believe that within five years we will not recognize the world in which we live because of the inroads AI will have made in our personal lives. The obvious dependence we already have on the internet is just a precursor to what is to come, and once the masses understand how to use AI to “think” for them we will see the masses willingly relinquish their ability to think, reason, and make choices under the false notion that AI can do those things better, freeing themselves from the responsibilities of being good citizens.
Knowing that we are “wonderfully and fearfully made” tells me that God has created us in His image. As such, we are equipped to live abundant lives as we submit to Him, not to AI.
I fear the same about the impact of AI, Ron. But, like you, I trust in God.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving, Anna.
You, too, Rob.
A timely article Anna, especially leading up to Christmas. We must be vigilant in regard to regulating the use of AI so as to preserve what is human and spiritual. While we already depend on it, we must control the rate of its rapid acceleration.
Anna, This post reminded me of an interview I heard in which Peter Thiel remarked that AI will be God-like. That the AI-pushers either regard it this way or want the public to regard it this way should send up a million red flags!
It’s so interesting to me that AI-use, like pornography us, alters us psychologically AND neurologically, affecting our relationship with God and each other.
So right, Dora.
A lot of people who are not working in the field of AI and psychology see a difference between algorithms and the structure of human thinking. Algorithms try to work like human thinking.
How do you define wisdom?
We suppose we shouldn’t fall back in history, like in the Middle Ages, to solve problems with praying.
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Prayer doesn’t preclude the exercise of intelligence. It simply seeks guidance from a power greater than ourselves. Christians understand that power to be a personal God.
Christians need not be luddites. Many of the greatest scientists have been Christian, as I am sure you know. But knowledge and wisdom are two different things. A child may be able to operate a vehicle. He does not have the judgment to do so safely.
All technologies have unintended consequences. AI will, as well. And all technologies have the potential for misuse. I worry about AI’s unintended consequences. But I fear AI’s misuse. No amount of programming — however excellent — can counter that. It will result from the sin nature of mankind. The problem is that AI is being given such broad reach there may be no coming back, when that occurs.
Thank you for the heart felt shares. Am deeply touched by your Faith and the love of God shining thru.
Stay blest! 🍃🌷🍃
Warm wishes,
Rayla
Many thanks! Blessings, A. ❤
Dear Anna, just now shortly after I replied to your comment on my blog about AI, this great article you already posted in November this year was suggested to me… by AI? I have no clue. 🙄 However, for that I am very grateful. This psychological evaluation is dead-on. Very helpful!
Thank you, Susanne. 🙂