05 February 2026

Is AI the New Tower of Babel?

From Avoiding Babylon


We discuss how the biblical Tower of Babel story, found in the Old Testament, finds a modern parallel in the rise of AI and large language models (LLM). Could this be a new form of apocalypse, symmetrical to Genesis?

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