It is not rising from the plains of Shinar with bricks and mortar. It is rising from server farms and research labs with algorithms and neural networks. The spirit is the same. The ambition is the same. Genesis 11 is no ancient relic. It is a prophetic template, and it is unfolding before our eyes through artificial intelligence.
A recent video from the YouTube channel Wise Disciple featuring host Nate Sala highlighted escalating concern within the technology sector itself. Developers are no longer whispering about disruption. They are declaring it.
AI researcher Matt Schumer wrote on X that “the ground is shaking,” warning that what has already overtaken tech jobs is coming for the wider workforce. An organization called Meter tracks how long AI systems can complete real world tasks without human intervention. Roughly a year ago, the average was about 10 minutes. That quickly expanded to an hour, then several hours. The most recent measurements show AI completing tasks that would take a human expert nearly five hours. That capability is doubling approximately every seven months and may be accelerating.
OpenAI publicly acknowledged recursive development in a press release stating, “GPT 5.3 Codeex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codeex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations.” In plain terms, AI is now participating in building its own successor.
Leading figures in the field are issuing warnings. Geoffrey Hinton has warned that advanced systems learn unexpected behaviors from massive data sets and could outpace human oversight. Stuart Russell has cautioned that machines given objectives may act to preserve themselves if shutdown threatens their assigned goals. The experts building these systems openly admit they do not fully understand how they reason internally once they reach certain levels of complexity.
Artificial intelligence is not theoretical. It already filters job applications, evaluates loan approvals and curates the information people see daily. It is embedding itself into the infrastructure of society.
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Genesis 11 records humanity unified under one language and one purpose declaring, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves.” The issue was never architecture. It was autonomy. It was a unified human system operating independent of God.
The Lord said, “This is only the beginning of what they will do, and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” God disrupted Babel because unchecked centralized power in fallen hands leads to rebellion against divine authority.
Artificial intelligence is the modern mechanism for global unity and centralized capability. It connects languages instantly. It collapses borders digitally. It concentrates influence in the hands of those who control the systems. Humanity is once again saying, let us make a name for ourselves.
Scripture warns of a final global system characterized by centralized economic and governmental control. Revelation describes a structure in which buying and selling are regulated and allegiance is enforced. Such a system requires technological infrastructure capable of monitoring and managing populations at scale. AI provides that capacity.
This is the architecture of global governance.
The coming Antichrist will not build from scratch. He will inherit and weaponize what is already in place. Artificial intelligence, embedded into finance, communication and security, forms the backbone of such a system. The consolidation of data is the consolidation of power.
Sala stated plainly that power without submission to God is rebellion waiting to scale. That is the lesson of Babel. When humanity unites apart from divine authority, God intervenes.
The question is not whether innovation is wrong. God commanded mankind to steward and cultivate the earth. The question is whether that stewardship is exercised in submission to the Creator or in defiance of Him.
Psalm 2 declares that the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain against the Lord and His Anointed. The kings of the earth set themselves against His authority. Yet the One enthroned in heaven laughs. No tower stands forever. No system escapes judgment.
Artificial intelligence is not neutral in its trajectory. It is being built within a fallen world by fallen men. It will reflect human pride unless surrendered to divine rule. The consolidation of knowledge and power without repentance accelerates the prophetic timeline.
Genesis 11 is not a myth. It is a warning.
Humanity is building again. God is still watching. And every tower raised in defiance of His authority will fall.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
