A church in Switzerland has stirred up controversy with an art installation in its confessional booth featuring an AI-powered avatar of Jesus. According to a report from the Associated Press ...

Not surprisingly, the “AI Jesus” that recently finished a run conversing with visitors in a church confessional booth has been called both. Aljosa Smolic, one of the technologists behind the ...

At St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, a monitor showing an animated Jesus sits on the priest’s side of a divider in a confessional booth, according to The Guardian. The image of Jesus is powered ...

Fife mentions Freud, too. But I couldn’t help thinking of a confessional booth, in which a scrim between priest and parishioner is designed to make way for more frank and honest disclosure of ...

A confessional is a booth where Catholic priests hear parishioners’ confessions of their sins and grant them absolution, forgiveness, in the name of God. Confession and repentance always take ...

One church’s experiment of using AI in its confessional booth is facing mixed feedback. Peter’s Chapel, a Catholic chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, partnered with researchers to install a ...

Merging technology and religion is a risk, not a road to spiritual fulfillment, says a scholar of Christianity.