Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance

AI-driven chattabots play a growing role in spiritual life A New York Times story It tests the popularity of religious chatbots and applications.

Times notes that an application called Bible Chat has been downloaded more than 30 million times, another application, hello, last year, Apple’s App Store reached number one.

In most cases, these applications are supposed to indicate people to the religious doctrine and scriptures to answer their questions, although at least one website plan is planned Allow users to chat with God ShobarThe Rabbi Jonathan Roman suggested that Chattabots could be “way of faith” “for people of the whole generation who never had church or synagogue.”

However these chatties are built on top of the AI ​​models Designed to verify users’ viewsThey may at the point of that Strengthen confusing or conspiracy thinkingThe Texas A&M Professor Heid Campbell, who studied the intersection of digital culture and religion, warned that Chattabots “Tell us what we want to hear.”

“It is not using spiritual discretion, it is using data and patterns,” said Campbell.