Immigration Rhetoric, Assisted Dying Bill, and AI Hallucinations
How should church leaders think and speak about immigration? How should we engage with the Assisted Dying Bill votes? What does AI teach us about being human?
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In this episode, Phil Topham (Executive Director), Adrian Reynolds (Head of National Ministries), and John Stevens (National Director), discuss some of the stories in the news and how they relate to local church leadership.
00:00 - European Leadership Forum and Korean connections
08:55 - The challenge of immigration
15:53 - Speaking about immigration
20:05 - The Assisted Dying Bill in Scotland
25:18 - When AI gets it wrong
Show notes
- FIEC Leaders' Conference 2025 (fiec.org.uk)
- UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says (theguardian.com)
- Scottish assisted dying bill passes first vote (bbc.co.uk)
- Assisted Suicide (christian.org.uk)
- Spotlight: AI (North Bradley Baptist Church) (youtube.com)
- ChatGPT is getting smarter, but its hallucinations are spiraling (techradar.com)
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