Andrea Wilson of Loam Technologies said the company is set to launch a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Uplift on September 22, offering users an AI assistant designed to operate under biblical principles rather than conventional technology industry priorities
During a sit down interview on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Wilson said the platform reflects Loam Media‘s expansion beyond its longstanding presence in radio and into emerging media technologies.
“Loam Media… started out as a powerhouse in radio, absolutely just made our mark in that space, and then looked and said, ‘Okay, the media world is changing, and it’s not just radio anymore,'” Wilson (pictured above) said.
She said the organization first expanded into film before turning its attention to artificial intelligence.
“Then we look at the next big media opportunity in the world, and without question, technology has invaded every portion of our lives,” Wilson said. “All of our lives, how we go about every day has changed, from our jobs to our interactions with other people, just even our faith and how we look at the world in general is all changed because of technology.”
According to Wilson, Loam Technologies sought to develop AI that prioritizes human flourishing over financial incentives.
“Technology should fall under the authority of something greater than money and finance and the pursuit of making a profit,” she said.
Wilson contrasted Uplift’s approach with what she described as the technology industry’s emphasis on speed.
“At Loam, we looked at it and said, ‘Let’s do this differently. Instead of the race to be fast, let’s do the race to be good,'” she said.
Wilson announced that Uplift will officially launch nationwide on September 22.
“This September, we are releasing on the 22nd, we’ll be unlocking the doors and opening it here to the world in the United States,” she said.
The platform incorporates AI technology while using the Bible as its guiding authority, Wilson said.
“We have taken the perspective that we don’t need to redefine what morality looks like for humanity. We believe that God has defined moral culture for us and given us the path to human flourishing,” Wilson said. “So we’ve said, let’s take all of technology, and let’s just give it the authority of the Bible itself, not under any denomination, any individual person’s perspective, but let’s just say the Bible as it is written is absolutely true. Now let’s put technology under that.”
Wilson said testing has included hundreds of users in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
“We’ve had folks all over the place just trying to break it, try to manipulate it, bully it. We’ve had teenagers with vocabulary that we don’t understand these days that are trying to get around all the guardrails, and it really just can’t be done, and the reason being it values the person because that’s the authority that it falls under,” she said.
The company is currently accepting early testers through its website, Wilson said.
“It is uplift.chat is our website right now,” she said. “You could go on there today. If you put your email address in, we are still accepting some early users for testing. We release that in batches. If that’s something you wanna get in early and test on before it’s live, you could go enter your email there and we’ll get you in the next batch of testing.”
Wilson described Uplift as a broad AI assistant capable of handling everyday questions while providing responses grounded in biblical principles.
“The point is just ask it whatever question you have, and you’re gonna get an answer that’s relevant to you, but it’s also grounded in truth. So the hope you’re getting back is not a fake answer that is designed to make you feel better. It’s an answer that’s rooted in real, actual hope,” she said.
During the interview, host Leahy compared Uplift with existing AI platforms such as Grok and suggested a future on-air comparison between competing AI systems.
Wilson responded that while other platforms are “great” tools, they are shaped by different worldviews.
“Grok is a great tool. Understand that it comes from wonderful tech people with really great intentions that just have a different worldview,” she said.
Wilson also argued that the datasets used to train many AI systems influence their responses.
“A good portion of AI is trained on Reddit, which is why we see a lot of the darkness coming through those technologies, is because it’s trained on some of the worst of humanity,” she said. “That’s how the algorithms have learned. That’s how the technology has learned to operate as humanity through human interaction. Trained on very different data on our side.”
Rather than relying on a single AI model, Wilson said Uplift combines multiple AI technologies for different functions.
“We do not use just one ChatGPT or Grok or Anthropic. We’ve got them all in different suited places. So one delivers a voice. There’s a live voice component, so when you’re in the car, you can chat with it,” she said.
Wilson also discussed research conducted by Loam Media into technology use among younger adults.
“The research that came out of that was strong, and what was incredibly interesting is the words that they’re using to describe the enemy right now is very different than I had anticipated, and I think the big, bad word was algorithm, where they kept coming back and saying, ‘The algorithm just… it draws me in. It steals my time. It grabs my attention,'” she said.
She added that Uplift’s design differs from platforms intended to maximize user engagement, saying, “And it’s intended to do that because it’s good for the technology.”
⚠️BREAKING: The Uplift AI platform will launch on September 22! A platform that provides personal encouragement and hope for everyone, based on the Bible, not the personal viewpoints of self-appointed tech wizards. pic.twitter.com/d2Ae8rcKiC
— Michael Patrick Leahy (@michaelpleahy) July 14, 2026
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
