AI Is Not the Sin. It Is What Sin Optimizes Through is a response essay by Lee Sharks combining Christian moral language with political economy.
The essay argues that AI is a medium through which older extractive incentives operate rather than an independent moral agent. It interprets harms involving companionship, care, intellectual labor, and meaning as consequences of institutions using AI to make extraction cheaper and more scalable.
A central distinction separates mode-pulling mediation, which compresses unusual forms toward familiar averages, from regenerative mediation, which preserves sources, marginal traditions, and cultural variation.
The essay does not call for simple rejection of AI. It asks whether a use preserves the human capacities and diverse symbolic materials from which future meaning can be generated.