Is AI Good for the Jews?

While the world debates the economic disruptions of AI-lost jobs, autonomous machines, surveillance states-a far more consequential crisis is unfolding. Teaming up with social media, AI is supercharging our march toward delusion and chaos. While machines may one day take over the economy, right now they are taking over reality itself.

In a post-October 7 world, the consequences are already visible. Deepfakes spread instantly, algorithms reward outrage, and ancient hatreds find modern distribution. And as history has shown with chilling regularity, when the social fabric begins to fray, Jews feel it first.

Craig R. Frank traces the arc of technological change and its impact on Jewish life, from Gutenberg's printing press, which mass-produced both the Talmud and the blood libel, to radio and film, which carried both Jewish genius and Nazi propaganda into the world's living rooms. Each revolution brought opportunity, and conversely, each brought new tools for hatred. AI may offer the greatest opportunity and the gravest risk yet.

Drawing on history, cultural insight, and an unflinching look at the post-October 7 digital collapse, Frank shows how the social consequences of AI, with its bias baked into training data, fabricated narratives, and algorithmically amplified tribalism, threaten not just Jewish communities, but every vulnerable group in society.

What starts with the Jews never stays there.

Is AI Good for the Jews? is a clarion call for regulation, communal awareness, and moral accountability, so we can stop the algorithm from deciding what's true, who belongs, and who doesn't.

The canary is already singing. Are we listening?

Craig Frank is a writer, entrepreneur, and global business advisor whose work sits at the intersection of Jewish history, emerging technologies, and the shifting media landscape. Drawing on decades of executive leadership, cross-cultural consulting, and lived experience in Israel, including service in the Israel Defense Forces, Craig brings a uniquely grounded and historically informed perspective to the challenges facing liberal democracies in the digital age. Craig's career spans more than two decades of CEO-level leadership. As Partner and a key executive at Kaya Holdings, a publicly traded company, he oversaw corporate strategy, operations, compliance, and financial performance, building a vertically integrated platform with retail, cultivation, and proprietary brands. Before that, he co-founded The Tudog Group, a Tel Aviv-based international advisory firm that worked with more than 200 companies across 19 countries in the technology, healthcare, defense, and consumer sectors. That global experience, spanning the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Israel. informs his understanding of how institutions adapt to disruption and how communities navigate uncertainty. A keynote speaker at venues including the Florida Sterling Council, the International Project Management Association (Israel), Florida International University's Pico Center for Entrepreneurship, and the Israel Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Craig has lectured across the Americas and beyond. He has published more than 300 articles on business and strategy, edited two works of Israeli military memoir ("A Soldier's Story" by Rafael "Raful" Eitan and "A Warrior's Way" by Avigdor Kahalani), and is the recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award and the New York Attorney General's 3 C's Award for Character, Courage, and Community Concern. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Sociology from Queens College, City University of New York, and completed graduate studies in International Relations at the CUNY Graduate Center.