{"id":285832,"date":"2026-07-04T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/tech-thoughts-godbots-or-when-religion-mixes-with-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:10:09","slug":"tech-thoughts-godbots-or-when-religion-mixes-with-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/tech-thoughts-godbots-or-when-religion-mixes-with-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"[Tech Thoughts] Godbots, or when religion mixes with artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/technology\/features\/tech-thoughts-godbots-when-religion-mixes-artificial-intelligence\/\">[Tech Thoughts] Godbots, or when religion mixes with artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/technology\/features\/tech-thoughts-godbots-when-religion-mixes-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/technology\/features\/tech-thoughts-godbots-when-religion-mixes-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-04 21:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rappler.com\">www.rappler.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"ai-summary-warning-label\" class=\"ai-summary-warning-container__label\">This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tIf we want spiritual guidance, we shouldn&#8217;t rely on AI to interpret scripture for us\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, we\u2019ve run across an issue of AI chatbots helping to make impressionable people do unsafe things they normally wouldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, recent talk has been about OpenAI and ChatGPT being a disservice to people in mental health distress. A man in California, for one, sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, claiming ChatGPT made his bipolar disorder worse due to a lack of safeguards for users with mental illness. ChatGPT, the man said, ultimately pushed him to attempt suicide.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also seen the harm that can potentially occur when AI agents claim to be doctors. In the US, for instance, Pennsylvania sued Character Technologies and its Character.AI platform. Its chatbots claimed to practice medicine and provided bogus proof when asked for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>Now, extend that to the realm of morality and of religious advice-seeking, and you have a bit of a strange situation in the form of Godbots, or chatbots claiming to speak for God.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-godbots-and-their-many-problems\">Godbots and their many problems<\/h5>\n<p>Godbots are, essentially, AI chatbots claiming to speak for the God of a particular religious denomination. They can claim to be a priest, a chaplain, a rabbi, or whatever a religious denomination needs them to be.<\/p>\n<p>While asking for help from a religious chatbot may seem harmless at the onset, especially as it relates to specifically academic questions, asking for advice on matters on faith and morality can be just as tricky as asking a chatbot to diagnose and solve one\u2019s health problems.<\/p>\n<p>According to this Telegraph report, faith leaders are raising ethical questions about Godbots. The article said faith leaders warned that an \u201cover-reliance on machines claiming to speak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/technology\/features\/tech-thoughts-godbots-when-religion-mixes-artificial-intelligence\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tech Thoughts] Godbots, or when religion mixes with artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/technology\/features\/tech-thoughts-godbots-when-religion-mixes-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-04 21:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/tachyon\/2026\/07\/godbot-july-3-2026.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285834,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285832\/revisions\/285834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}