AI: Tool, Shortcut, or Master?

Potluck and Soft Start

Let the meal do relational work. Adults should model relaxed conversation, not interview the youth.

Table prompts: “What AI tool have you used recently?” “What is AI surprisingly good at?” “What is one AI thing that feels strange or tempting?”

Leader move: listen for themes: study pressure, dependence, friendship advice, cheating, anxiety, comparison, and creativity.

Game 1: AI or Human?

Purpose: warm up the room and reveal that AI can imitate tone, emotion, and intelligence.

Use: Game 1 Printout. Hand out the unlabeled samples, let everyone vote, then reveal the answer key.

Debrief questions: What can AI imitate well? What can it not truly become? How can imitation still influence real people?

Game 2: Where Is The Line?

Purpose: make the ethical tension visible without forcing one quick answer.

How to play: mark one side of the room “wise use” and the other side “dangerous use.” Read a scenario. Participants stand where they think it belongs. Ask two people from different positions to explain.

1. Using AI to explain a hard concept before a test.
2. Using AI to make an essay outline.
3. Using AI to write the essay, then editing it a little.
4. Using AI to decide what to text someone you like.
5. Using AI for advice because you do not want to tell your parents or friends.
6. Using AI to write a prayer or devotional thought.
7. Using AI because everyone else does and you feel stupid if you do not.

Repeat: What makes this helpful? What makes this dangerous? Where is the line between support and surrender?

Leader line: “We are not only asking, ‘Can I?’ We are asking, ‘What is this doing to my heart, honesty, courage, and wisdom?’”

Discovery Bible Study: Proverbs 4:20-27

Read the passage twice. First reading: everyone listens. Second reading: ask them to notice repeated body words and action words.

• What stands out to you?
• What does this passage say about God’s wisdom?
• What does it say about people and the heart?
• Why does the passage connect ears, eyes, mouth, heart, feet, and paths?
• What could “guard your heart” mean in an AI-shaped world?
• If this passage is true, what should change in how we use AI?

Leader bridge: “AI gives answers quickly, but Proverbs is concerned with the direction of a whole life.”

Build The Y-Group AI Wisdom Filter

Use: Wisdom Filter Printout. Assign each person or pair one category, let them rewrite it in youth language, then choose the final six questions together.

• Truth: Am I using this to seek truth or avoid truth?
• Integrity: Would I be okay if my teacher, parent, or friend knew how I used it?
• Growth: Is this helping me learn, or replacing my learning?
• Heart: Is this feeding fear, laziness, pride, comparison, or isolation?
• Relationship: Is AI replacing a conversation I should have with God or a real person?
• Lordship: Is this a tool I control, or something quietly controlling me?

Finish: test the filter on two scenarios, then ask each person to choose the one question they personally need this week.

Personal Response

Give two quiet minutes. Ask each person to write one answer, then invite voluntary sharing.

• One way AI helps me:
• One way AI tempts me:
• One boundary I may need:
• One real conversation I may need to have:
• One kind of person I want God to form me into:

Prayer and Close

Invite each person to say one word for prayer: wisdom, honesty, courage, peace, focus, identity, discipline, friendship, or help.

Close by praying that Y-Group becomes a spiritual family where people can bring real life questions and discover God’s wisdom together.