AI & The Church
Survey Results
See the sentiments of christians and ministry leaders around the topic of Artificial Intelligence.
66% classify themselves as no or beginner-level experience using AI
- Only 9% consider themselves advanced or experts
- 46% of Millennials and Gen Z stated no experience or beginner level
19% of church leaders say they use AI on a daily or weekly basis
- 62% say they rarely or never use AI in their work
- 19% cite occasional use
54% are quite to extremely concerned about ethical or moral issues around AI in the Church
- Another 40% are slightly to somewhat concerned
- 6% are not concerned at all
- 27% of boomers resist AI adoption in the Church, compared to 18% of Millennials and Gen Zers
A majority of leaders are somewhat to very uncomfortable with the emergence of AI in the world
- 54% feel somewhat to very uncomfortable
- 32% feel somewhat to very positive or excited.
- 15% percent remain neutral
27% of leaders are somewhat to very positive or excited when it comes to using AI in their church
- 43% feel somewhat to very uncomfortable with the idea
- 30% were neutral with no strong feelings either way
7% assert that the Big C Church should condemn the use of AI in ministry
- 42% believe the Church should moderately leverage AI in ministry
- 9% assert the Church should enthusiastically leverage the technology
- 16% percent hold that the Church should resist the use of AI in ministry