{"id":2983562,"date":"2023-10-09T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=2983562"},"modified":"2023-10-09T09:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:01:32","slug":"godbots-ai-2983562-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/godbots-ai-2983562-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Jesus? Experts question wisdom of godbots"},"content":{"rendered":"
Researchers raise concerns about giving moral authority to artificial intelligence, specifically “godbots.”<\/p>\n
As artificial intelligence<\/a> apps such as ChatGPT have proliferated, so have chatbots with a religious bent<\/a>. People facing a moral or ethical dilemma can submit their questions to these chatbots, which then provide an answer based on the religious texts fed to them or crowd-sourced data. Webb Keane<\/a>, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, recently co-wrote an op-ed in The Spectator<\/em><\/a> about the phenomenon.<\/p>\n