21 Articles about AI & Religion

You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work – Futurism

AI stumbles on questions of faith – Axios

To Understand Pope Leo’s Efforts on A.I., Look at the Man Shaking His Hand - New York Times

The Vatican is racing to build digital defenses for the AI era - Axios

Can AI be a ‘child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s meeting with Christian leaders. – Washington Post

The Atheist and the Machine God - New York Times 

AI stumbles on questions of faith – Axios  

The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic’s A.I. Ethics Code – Observer

Unitree robot becomes Japanese Buddhist monk “Buddharoid” – Cybernews

Does AI Have a Place in the Pulpit? – The Dispatch  

AI Use Growing Among Christian Ministry Leaders - Ministry Watch

Vatican releases long-awaited document on AI and Transhumanism – omnes

From churches to chatbots: How AI is fusing with religion – Reuters  

AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social Network – Forbes

Pope Leo warns of dangers of AI, emphasizes dignity of human faces, voices – Catholic Culture

It Makes Sense That People See A.I. as God – New York Times 

Is Transhumanism the Future or Our Downfall? – Psychology Today  

AI ethics in Catholic health – Boston College 

Inside the unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate – Religious News Service  

Don’t Want to Use AI at Work? Tell Your Boss It Goes Against Your Religion.- Vice

AI Only Responds to the Questions We Know to Ask – Christianity Today

The American nones

Reconciling the overwhelming sense of life’s importance with the universe’s ostensible indifference to human suffering is hard.

Although belief in God is no panacea for these problems, religion is more than a theism. It is a bundle: a theory of the world, a community, a social identity, a means of finding peace and purpose, and a weekly routine. Those, like me, who have largely rejected this package deal, often find themselves shopping à la carte for meaning, community, and routine to fill a faith-shaped void. Their politics is a religion. Their work is a religion. Their spin class is a church. And not looking at their phone for several consecutive hours is a Sabbath.

American nones may well build successful secular systems of belief, purpose, and community. But imagine what a devout believer might think: Millions of Americans have abandoned religion, only to re-create it everywhere they look.

Derek Thompson writing in The Atlantic 

so that I may participate in it fully

I do not serve God only in the brief moments during which I am taking part in a religious service, or reading the Bible, or saying my prayers, or talking about him in some book I am writing, or discussing the meaning of life with a patient or a friend. 

I serve him quite as much when I am giving a patient an injection, or lancing an abscess, or writing a prescription, or giving a piece of good advice. Or again, I serve him quite as much when I am reading the newspaper, traveling, laughing at a joke, or soldering a joint in an electric wire. I serve him by taking an interest in everything, because he is interested in everything, because he has created everything and has put me in his creation so that I may participate in it fully. 

“It is a great mistake,” wrote Archbishop William Temple, “to suppose that God is interested only, or even primarily in religion.”

Paul Tournier, The Adventure of Living