AI would generate “abundance on [the] planet” and create “what other religions would call Heaven on Earth,” he said. “You don’t even have to die and go up to Heaven; you can just enjoy it today—all we have to do is improve the technology.” An article published by the European Academy on Religion and Society offered a different assessment, calling Way of the Future an “AI cult” that offers people “no hope of eternal bliss, just the goal of keeping AI from turning human reality into a dystopian temporal hell.”
Way of the Future is not alone. Hall documents a wave of AI-religion integration across faiths CODE RED. In Kyoto, Japan, a Buddhist robot priest named Mindar delivers sermons at the Kodaiji Temple. When BBC News asked a Buddhist monk, Tensho Goto, whether the robot is sacrilegious, he replied, “It is not blasphemy. Although it’s a gradual process, AI is going to create a change in other religions too.” In Lucerne, Switzerland, St. Peter’s Church created an AI Jesus avatar dubbed “Deus in Machina” (God in the Machine) inside a confessional booth. Two-thirds of those who interacted with it reported having a “spiritual experience.” On Twitch, an AI Jesus chatbot called “ask_jesus” has more than eighty-eight thousand followers.
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Yeah, that's a bit creepy for me. I don't need an avatar of any kind to talk with Jesus!
I wonder, though... How many people will develop a new relationship with Jesus because this is a way that works for them? And, why would I assume that Jesus, who know their true hearts, would see that invitation to enter their lives?
I think it would have to be a really slow or thick mind to actually believe that the AI is the voice of God. But, then again, people have done even dumber things.
Since AI is here to stay, maybe those of us who are aware of the slippery slope need to talk with those who are using it to coach them to understand what is real, and what is a tool.
Great response. If it helps people come to a relationship with Jesus, then, YEA by all means. I was seeing things in a negative way, thanks for bringing the positivity.