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 ...

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 ...

Peter’s Chapel, a Catholic chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, partnered with researchers to install a digital version of “Jesus” in a confessional — an experiment called “Deus in Machina ...

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Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross (THE CONVERSATION) This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. Advertisement Article ...

(THE CONVERSATION) This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. This hologram of Jesus Christ on a screen was animated by an artificial ...

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

A small chapel in the picturesque Swiss town of Lucerne has installed an “AI Jesus” that allows parishioners to confess their sins to a digital version of the Son of God. The multi-lingual bot has ...