A future built by humans and artificial intelligence. A handshake between flesh and metal. A promise that technology will carry humanity into a new age.
Ryan Miller is asking whether that vision points toward something far more unsettling: the iron mixed with clay in the Book of Daniel.
Reacting to a video he said Elon Musk posted, Miller challenged the optimistic picture of humans and machines building a new world together.
“What Elon Musk is clearly saying is he’s saying that there’s going to be a time of prosperity and peace that comes from AI and humanity, robots and humans coming together,” Miller said.
But beneath that promise, Miller sees urgent questions about transhumanism, biblical prophecy and what future generations could become.
“And Christians, we can’t punt on this. I know this sounds really sci-fi. This is happening right now,” he said.
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Miller pointed to Neuralink users controlling devices with their minds as evidence that the integration of people and machines has already moved beyond imagination.
“This isn’t science fiction. This isn’t future. This is right now,” he said.
He then turned to Daniel 2, where iron mixed with clay appears in a prophetic vision of a divided kingdom. Miller acknowledged that his connection between the passage and modern technology is an interpretation.
“Now, there’s many interpretations about what that means,” he said. “My interpretation is that this is actually an end-times interpretation, an end-times vision of man being mixed with machine, and that’s what they’re promoting.”
“They’re promoting transhumanism.”
For Miller, the passage’s declaration that the mixture will not hold together strikes at the confidence surrounding humanity’s technological ambitions.
“If your interpretation of the book of Daniel is that iron mixed with clay is man mixed with machine, it’s not going to work,” he said.
“It’s not going to be good, but there is good news.”
His concern extends to children who could inherit a world transformed by those ambitions.
Miller described the video’s final image as showing a baby in space without a spacesuit while its parents wore protective suits. He interpreted the imagery as suggesting technological integration beginning at birth.
“That tells us that coming down the pipe, their goal is to mix children with these machines from birth,” he said.
That conclusion reflects Miller’s reading of the scene. His broader argument is that Christians need to examine these developments before they become ordinary features of daily life.
“Christians, we have to have a robust theology about these things because this is happening very fast,” he said.
Miller also connected rapid advances in knowledge to Daniel 12:4.
“So, that communicates to me that we’re in the last days,” he said.
He acknowledged that the future he envisions unsettles him.
“And it’s scary,” Miller said. “I’m a little freaked out if I’m being honest.”
But Daniel’s vision does not end with a fragile mixture or the ambitions of earthly rulers.
Miller read from Daniel 2:44: “And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed.”
“I think that’s the millennial reign,” he said.
That promise, Miller emphasized, must govern the Christian response to an uncertain future. He urged Christians to develop a biblical understanding of AI and resist being ruled by fear.
“We know that there’s a king coming and that he will set all things right and every knee will bow and he will come back for his people,” Miller said.
“That’s the good news. Hold on to that hope.”
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a journalism background from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and at 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].
