{"id":206281,"date":"2025-10-07T05:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/206281\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:05:07","slug":"ai-chatbots-in-religious-apps-offer-spiritual-guidance-posing-as-jesus-and-other-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/206281\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots in religious apps offer spiritual guidance posing as Jesus and other figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Artificial intelligence, the technology upending nearly every corner of society, is creeping into religion, serving up virtual Jesuses and automated sermons \u2013 a change drawing mixed reviews from the faithful.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Religious chatbots and other faith-based digital tools are growing in number, offering counsel, comfort and spiritual guidance during an age of rapidly transforming socialisation and engagement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One app, called Text With Jesus, has thousands of paying subscribers. It lets people ostensibly ask questions of Mary, Joseph, Jesus and nearly all 12 apostles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The idea is to educate, said St\u00e9phane Peter, CEO of Catloaf Software, which created the app.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is a new way to address religious issues in an interactive way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Although the app makes clear it uses AI, virtual Moses and Jesus do not recognise that as such when asked the specific question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence, the technology upending nearly every corner of society, is creeping into religion, serving up virtual Jesuses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,118434,118433,118437,50028,8543,181,507,6778,118435,4320,3195,118436,118432,74708,39021,46718,118431,2005,90943,74,118430,12855],"class_list":["post-206281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-buddha","tag-ai-church","tag-anglican-church","tag-app-store","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-austin","tag-catholic-answers","tag-chatbots","tag-chatgpt","tag-christian-communities","tag-deen-buddy","tag-google-deepmind","tag-google-play","tag-islam","tag-jesus","tag-new-york","tag-pope-francis","tag-technology","tag-text-with-jesus","tag-virtual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}