Church installs AI Jesus that offers advice to worshipers: Why we need more than a divine avatar
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
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A church in Switzerland has created a computer-generated avatar of Jesus. St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, ironically the nation’s oldest church, now has cutting-edge technology that enables people to talk with an AI version of God’s Son. However, visitors are warned against sharing personal details and informed that their interactions with the avatar are at their own risk. We need a God who will not only give us advice but actually act in our lives and our broken world on our behalf, as a blessing and not a risk to us all.
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| 0:51.3 | Greetings. It's Thursday, December the 19th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins. Welcome to the Daily |
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| 1:06.0 | Denison. A church in Switzerland has created a computer-generated avatar of Jesus. |
| 1:13.6 | St. Peter's Chapel in Lucerne, ironically, that nation's oldest church, |
| 1:18.6 | now has cutting-edge technology that enables people to talk with an AI version of God's son. |
| 1:25.6 | When you enter a confessional booth, a lifelike avatar on a computer |
| 1:30.2 | screen offers advice based on the Bible and is available in more than 100 languages. Around 900 |
| 1:37.5 | conversations between people and the machine have been registered so far. However, visitors are |
| 1:43.9 | warned against sharing personal details |
| 1:46.1 | and informed that their interactions with the avatar are at their own risk. |
| 1:51.0 | Of course, the real Son of God already knows every detail of our lives |
| 1:55.5 | as referenced by Luke 5, verse 22, and Hebrews chapter 4, verse 13. Interactions with him are not a risk, but a blessing |
| 2:04.8 | beyond compare, as affirmed by Hebrews 4, verse 16. There's the fact that we need a God who will not |
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