In the future, a program like AI Jesus could be used to hear confessions around the clock. But with no experience of having a ...

At Peter's Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, a virtual Jesus dispensed words of faith as part of the art project “Deus in ...

Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross This hologram of Jesus Christ on a screen was animated by an artificial intelligence program. The AI’s programming included ...

However, even though AI Jesus was not actually hearing confessions, as a specialist in the history of Christian worship, I was disturbed by the act of placing the AI project in a real confessional ...

A confessional is a booth where Catholic priests hear parishioners' confessions of their sins and grant them absolution, forgiveness, in the name of God. Confession and repentance always take ...

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 ...