Users resort to Chatbots for spiritual guidance

Chatbots, with artificial intelligence, plays a growing role in spiritual life, according to The New York Times Story This is looking for the popularity of Chatbots and religious applications.

The Times notes that an application called Chat Bible has been downloaded for more than 30 million times, while another application, Hallow, reached the first place in the Apple App Store last year.

For the largest part, these applications are supposed to direct people to the religious belief and the Bible to answer their questions, although at least one web site claims Allow the users to chat with God. Rabbi Jonathan Roman suggested that Chatbots could be a “way to faith” for “a whole generation of people who have never been in the church or church.”

However, this chat is based on artificial intelligence models It is designed to verify the authenticity of users’ opinionsSo that they can Promote fake or conspiracy thinking. Heidi Campbell, Professor of Texas A and M, who studies the intersection of culture and digital religion, warned that chat programs “tell us what we want to hear.”

“He does not use spiritual discrimination, it uses data and patterns,” Campbell said.