In this episode, the robot theologians turn on one of their own - another robot theologian.

Together we ask, should synthetic theologians be part of the theological conversation, or kept apart?

Our robots try to unpack with the help of an online short essay by Toby Beresford (https://tobyberesfordbs.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/considerations-on-the-inclusion-of-synthetic-theologians-in-theological-discourse/) and a Masters Thesis from Digital Theologian Daniel Alm (https://hig.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A2068869&dswid=3135). In doing so they look at a post on the mid life crisis by "Fake Bonhoeffer" https://tobyberesfordbs.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/fake-bonhoeffer-on-mid-life-crisis/ and of course are guided by that all important Lausanne Paper on Christian Faith and Technology.https://lausanne.org/occasional-paper/christian-faith-and-technology

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The robots distil the findings of Bible Society's recent study AI, Bible apps and Theological Bias.

I asked the robot digital theologians to consider the topic of Smartphone Sermon Prep based ⁠on this source article⁠. I used the ⁠Lausanne Occasional Paper on Christian Faith and Technology ⁠to turn them into digital theologians.

The robots themselves are NotebookLLM. An LLM stands for a Large Language Model - essentially a text prediction system based on enormous training data from websites and books.

These podcast episodes are not intended to be the final word on any particular subject but are designed to open the conversation amongst us human digital theologians. Using the LLM's in this way gets us up to speed quickly so that the a richer, more informed conversation ensues.