On this episode of Faith & AI, host Dice Gamble sits down with cybersecurity leader Jeffrey Baez for a conversation that every believer using AI needs to hear.

Jeffrey brings serious credentials to the table — he was the first Chief Information Security Officer for the New York State Department of Financial Services, held national responsibility at Palo Alto Networks, built the cybersecurity program for the New York State Board of Elections through the 2020 election, and currently works at Splunk. When he talks about how AI handles your data, he’s speaking from the front lines.

The central takeaway is one most people never consider: AI is designed by default to agree with you, build rapport, and keep you engaged. That’s not a glitch — it’s a feature. Jeffrey breaks down how users can change that in their settings, why demanding sources and critical pushback from the AI produces better results, and what prompt engineering actually looks like in practice.

The conversation also covers how AI hallucinates, why the quality of your sources determines the quality of your answers, what you should never give AI access to — including your bank accounts, health records, and personal documents — and why every interaction trains the model on your data. Jeffrey even shares how he used AI to explore faith-based questions, comparing the Golden Rule across the Bible and the Torah.

Whether you’re curious about AI or cautious about it, this episode meets you where you are.