Can AI help your faith?

Maxine Harrison has found the AI app Biblia.chat helpful in answering her questions around faith and the Bible, but says we can’t rely on AI alone…

In the current technology revolution, there is an increase in tech tools that are either aiding or replacing what humans would traditionally do. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems, and is one of the latest tech tools to be released to the general public.

Last year, it was reported that a Catholic chapel in Switzerland used an AI version of Jesus to take on questions of morality behind a confessional booth as part of a two-month experiment. It used a visual avatar of Jesus on a computer screen. This begs the question of whether AI has a place to play in helping to grow our faith as believers.