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  • Can Meaning Exist in Artificial Systems? ... Explore the condition that separates simulation from Meaning
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  • AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict: Humanity is not naturally violent | University of Oxford ...Artificial intelligence can help us to better understand the causes of religious violence and to potentially control it
  • Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation? | James Dow
• Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral | Sigal Samuel - Vox
• Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence | Michelle Le
• A.I. Could Bring a Sea Change in How People Experience Religious Faith | Ruth Graham - Forbes
• Can a chatbot preach a good sermon? Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT to find out | Kirsten Grieshaber - AP News ... The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord. The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI.
• The Rise of AI Religion | The Atlantic - May 2024 ... Examining how generative AI is being integrated into traditional religious practices and new digital-first belief systems.

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“I told the artificial intelligence ‘We are at the church congress, you are a preacher … what would a church service look like?’”
- Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna. He also asked for psalms to be included, as well as prayers and a blessing at the end.

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Transhumanism

2025 AI-Religion Outlook

As we move through 2025, the integration of autonomous agents into spiritual life has shifted from experimental chatbots to sophisticated "ethical arbiters." These systems are increasingly utilized as spiritual advisors that provide personalized theological interpretations, meditation guidance, and moral frameworks based on specific religious texts. This evolution raises critical questions regarding the role of AI in digital communities, where agents act as mediators for communal prayer, conflict resolution, and the interpretation of sacred doctrine in real-time.

AI-powered Chatbot gives Muslims religious guidance Programmers say they trained the "Virtual Ifta" on around 130,000 fatwas issued by real-life religious scholars.STORY-LINE:Islamic fatwas, or religious decrees, are getting an AI twist. The UAE's Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) has launched a "Virtual Ifta" program, to give AI-generated guidance to Muslims on their religious queries. The program, available on a website and through a mobile application, uses an AI-powered Chatbot to answer questions on how to best practice Islam. It takes live questions and replies back. It's available 24/7. It's claimed to be the first of its kind in the Islamic world. "The platform is based and built on an AI technology and machine learning," explains project manager Abdulla al Awadhi.

AI religion: 'Godhead' robo religion started by fired Uber exec called Way of the Future - TomoNews. Ex-Google and ex-Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski has decided to preempt the AI apocalypse by forming a robot religion called the Way of the Future. According to Wired, papers filed with IRS in May put Levandowski as the "dean" and CEO of the non-profit religion. Levandowski's robo-religion has a gospel, reportedly dubbed The Manual. They'll worship the godhead, an advanced AI they predict will evolve to hold god-like intelligence.

AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict. The research published in The Journal for Artificial Societies and Social Stimulation, combines comp....

Sophia AI Robot Talk About GOD & Religion At CES 2019

Service of religion through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning | Rehan Allahwala In this video Rehan Allahwala is explaining how you can use service of religion through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning | Rehan Allahwala

God and robots: Will AI transform religion? - BBC News Artificial intelligence is changing how we interact with everything: food, healthcare, travel - and also religion. Experts say major global faiths are discussing their relationship with AI, and some are starting to incorporate this technology into their worship. Robot priests can recite prayers, perform funerals, and even comfort those experiencing a spiritual crisis. Is it just a gimmick, or will it transform how people experience faith?

ChatGPT with Religion

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A Children's Book Created By An A.I. Bot Can an A.I. Bot can write and illustrate a children’s book? Lucas Kitchen demonstrates exactly that in this episode of More To The Story.

ChatGPT Accepts Challenge from God in the Quran? Here we put ChatGPT to the test of Quran 2:23 "And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a surah like it and call your helpers other than Allah, if what you say is true."

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Artificial Intelligence Intersection with Religion

What connections does AI have with Religion? Welcome to Gresham Lectures!

AI & Religion – Yaqub Chaudhary Dr Yaqub Chaudry, Templeton Research Fellow at CMC, delivers a lecture on Artificial Intelligence at the CMC Retreat 2018

The Catholic Church and Artificial Intelligence Fr. Cristian Mendoza of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome examines the Church's reaction to the benefits -- and dangers -- of Artificial Intelligence. See the interview on EWTN News Nightly with Lauren Ashburn.

Alexander Görlach: AI & the Future of Religion Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Alexander Görlach, editor-in-chief of online magazine "ConditioHumana," discusses what the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) means for religion and, specifically, whether Catholicism will be able to adapt.

Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and Religion “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and Religion” is an exciting one-day conference to be held on January 30, 2020, at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York, in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), the Riverside Church and the Greater Good Initiative. New technologies are transforming our world every day, and the pace of change is only accelerating. In coming years, human beings will create machines capable of out-thinking us and potentially taking on such uniquely-human traits as empathy, ethical reasoning, perhaps even consciousness. This will have profound implications for virtually every human activity, as well as the meaning we impart to life and creation themselves. This conference will provide an introduction for non-specialists to Artificial Intelligence (AI)

'AI and Religious Beliefs’ with Yorick Wilks This lecture addresses the potential links between AI and religious belief, which include the question of whether an artificial “superintelligence”, were one to arise, would be well-disposed towards us. Religious traditions historically assume that creations are well disposed to those who made them. The lecture also looks at the recent US cults claiming to be ready to worship such a “super-intelligence”, if and when it emerges, as well as other futurist discourse on “Transhumanism” and its roots in 18th-century rationalism. I will also look at recent attempts by religious groups to make use of AI developments like Chatbots.

Data Science & Religion

Religions and babies | Hans Rosling Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others -- and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over time and across religions. With his trademark humor and sharp insight, Hans reaches a surprising conclusion on world fertility rates.

CRAP Talks #8 - Shaun McGirr: "Data Science vs. Data Religion" Shaun McGirr gives perhaps one of the funniest and thought-provoking talks ever given at a CRAP Talks event. Shaun from Cox Automotive speaks about data measuring the behaviour and its outcomes, "what" happened and religion explaining "why" things happen, with the "how" missing.

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan

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