The Parable of the Peanut Butter Sandwich: An Exercise in Artificial Intelligence and (Pseudo-) Bible Translation

The public release of artificial intelligence tools such as Microsoft’s Bing Chat built on OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) continues to spark extensive interest—attracting headlines, prompting important interdisciplinary questions, and posing dilemmas both ethical methodological. aim this paper is provide a sampling temporal snapshot AI-powered Bing’s abilities through the creation, translation, adaptation pseudo-biblical content. We adopt our source text an AI-generated parable in style King James Bible—here entitled “The Parable Peanut Butter Sandwich”—originally prompted by software developer Thomas Ptacek. For purposes paper, adapted original into multiple versions (Nida, poem, acrostic, French), supplied it with paratext (introduction, illustrations, glossary), analyzed from perspectives sociologist Pierre Bourdieu Documentary Hypothesis. Lastly, generated sermon outline renowned orator St. John Chrysostom. hope that subsequent studies at nexus Bible translation will continue build Sandwich explore potential implications emergent technology.