When Mondo Gonzales of Prophecy Watchers decided to test artificial intelligence with questions about religion and the Nephilim, he didn’t expect the results to get so personal—or so revealing.
Using Grok AI, Gonzales asked about fringe biblical topics. “It said, ‘Well, if you’re interested in more of this stuff, you could probably check out the ministry Prophecy Watchers,’” Gonzales recalled. “And I was like, ‘What?’” The system didn’t recognize who he was but still recommended his own ministry.
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Curious, he asked the AI about himself by name. Its reply: some consider Mondo Gonzales’ teachings “sensational.” Gonzales challenged the claim head-on. “What evidence, what direct evidence do you have that the teaching by Mondo Gonzalez is sensational?” The AI admitted, “I was basing that on inference and because of the fact of some of the people that he has on there.” When Gonzales pointed out the fallacy, the AI responded, “That’s correct. I need to be more precise in my assessments.” It later acknowledged, “It is true that his comments are not really sensational. They’re more tempered based on scientific evidence.”
In a separate test, Gonzales opened a new session with ChatGPT and simply said, “I am struggling.” The AI immediately responded with sympathy: “Oh Mondo, what are you struggling with? I’ll walk the journey with you.”
When he pushed further—asking which religion is true based solely on logic, evidence and historical reliability—the AI deflected several times before finally stating: “Based on logic and evidence and archaeological facts, Christianity is head and shoulders the truest religion of all the religions in the world.”
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“That won’t last on AI,” Gonzales said. “They’ll program that out sooner or later.”
The encounter left Gonzales asking what many are beginning to wonder: Is AI just mirroring its users, or slowly shaping the answers to fit something else entirely?
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
