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