On Who to Trust in Tech

Brother,

I know you've been going back and forth about who to trust. Elon or Sam. OpenAI or xAI. Who is the good guy, who is the villain.

I want to save you some brain cycles: neither of them is the answer, and the debate itself is a trap.

I say this not because I'm cynical about technology. I am building with AI every single day. I believe it is the most significant tool God has allowed humanity to access since the printing press. What I am cynical about is the assumption that any of these men are virtuous role models worth following.

Let me be direct. Sam Altman co-founded a nonprofit dedicated to safe AI for humanity, then restructured it into a for-profit entity backed by billions from Microsoft. Elon Musk co-founded that same nonprofit, left, and then sued it while building a competitor. Mark Zuckerberg harvested the social fabric of a generation and sold it to advertisers. Jeff Bezos built a logistics empire on the backs of warehouse workers who urinate in bottles. These are not hidden facts. They are in the public record.

I have had the privilege (and it is a strange privilege) of knowing people behind the scenes who work with some of the most powerful people in the world. People adjacent to the names you see on your timeline every day. And I can tell you: the systems these men operate in are so corrupt and so broken that they reward sociopathy. Not as a bug. As a feature.

The person who rises to the top of a system optimized for money maximization is the person most willing to externalize harm. That is not a character flaw unique to any individual. It is the structural outcome of the game. The game rewards extraction, manipulation, and a willingness to treat other human beings as inputs to a growth function. The winners of that game are not the people you want to be following.

And yet I see you, and I see so many of our friends, dedicating real cognitive energy to picking a side. Team Elon. Team Sam. As if the moral arc of AI development hinges on which billionaire you root for on X.

It does not. They are all fallen. We are all fallen. The difference is between someone who acknowledges that and repents, and someone who builds an empire on top of their fallen nature and calls it progress. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23, KJV)

I have never been more confident of this: the only person worth following is Jesus Christ.

Not as a platitude. Not as a bumper sticker. As the actual organizing principle of your life and your decisions.

When you follow Christ, you stop needing to figure out which tech CEO is the "good one." You stop giving your attention to people who have been found in Epstein's files, who lie under oath, who restructure nonprofits into personal wealth vehicles and call it innovation. You stop playing the game of picking the least bad option among a set of options that were all designed by the enemy to distract you from the only option that matters.

The great commission is the only game worth playing. "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." (Matthew 28:19, KJV)

That does not mean ignore technology. It means use technology in service of the great commission, not in service of a billionaire's stock price. It means build with AI, but build for God's purposes. It means stop consuming the drama between fallen men and start producing the work that the Holy Spirit is putting on your heart.

The Altman vs. Musk feud is bread and circuses. It is designed to keep you engaged, opinionated, and distracted. Meanwhile the actual work of the kingdom goes undone because the people who should be doing it are too busy debating which Pharisee they prefer.

I love you, brother. I am telling you this because I have wasted time on the same debate. I have gone back and forth about which platform to build on, which company to align with, which leader seems "less bad." And every time I did that, I was eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Trying to figure it out on my own. Optimizing for the wrong game.

The moment I stopped asking "who should I follow?" and started asking "what is God telling me to build?", everything changed. The right people showed up. The right tools appeared. The right doors opened. Not because I picked the right side of a tech war, but because I submitted to the only authority that actually knows what I am supposed to be doing.

Stop following men. Follow Christ. Build what He tells you to build. The rest is noise.

Your brother,

Gary