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From: S. maltophilia12/6/2024 12:15:37 AM
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AI Jesus might ‘listen’ to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins - a scholar of Catholicism explains

Published: December 4, 2024 8:40am EST

Disclosure statement Joanne M. Pierce does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors.

The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled “ Deus in Machina,” created at the University of Lucerne. The Latin title literally means “ god from the machine”; it refers to a plot device used in Greek and Roman plays, introducing a god to resolve an impossible problem or conflict.....

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