AI-driven chatbots play an increasingly important role in spiritual life The New York Times Story This checks the popularity of religious chatbots and applications.
The Times noted that an app called Bible Chat has been downloaded more than 30 million times, while another app Hallow ranked first in the Apple App Store last year.
In most cases, these applications should point people to religious sayings and scriptures to answer their questions, although at least one website is designed to Allow users to chat with God. Rabbi Jonathan Roman suggests that chatbots may be a “way of faith” of “the whole person who has never been to a church or synagogue”.
However, these chatbots are built on top of AI models To verify user opinionsi.e. they can Strengthen delusion or conspiracy thinking. Heidi Campbell, a Texas A&M professor who studies the intersection of digital culture and religion, warned that the chatbots “tell us what we want to hear.”
“It uses not mental discrimination, but data and patterns,” Campbell said.
