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'AI Jesus' is now taking confessions at a church in Switzerland (www.vice.com)
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AI is coming for us all. Writers, doctors and artists – among many others – all stand to have their livelihoods decimated by artificial intelligence. And the next potential victim? The Son of God.

Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, recently unveiled “Deus in machina,” an “experimental art installation” that features an AI version of Jesus in the confessional booth, according to its website.

The church has encouraged visitors to “share their thoughts and questions” with AI Jesus, though it clarified that this shouldn’t be considered the Sacrament of Confession.

AI Jesus, whose likeness appears on a screen in the confessional, may “create a sacred moment,” the church said. Peter’s Chapel added that the installation is meant to encourage visitors “to think critically about the limits of technology in the context of religion.”

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About two-thirds of participants told the outlet that they came out of the tech-assisted confessional having had a spiritual experience.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Jesus has always been AI, now it's just run by a computer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI - Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Slim (silicon) Jesus?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

The church has encouraged visitors to “share their thoughts and questions” with AI Jesus, though it clarified that this shouldn’t be considered the Sacrament of Confession.

So then AI Jesus is not actually taking confessions like Vice's titles states.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It is taking confessions but the Sacrament of Confession involves the absolution of sins, which the AI is not doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

yes, no computer can absolve you of sin. only a creepy old guy in a robe can do that, come on

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

I see, I'm not Catholic and thought confessions always included the absolution part

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

What if a local bishop just splashed some holy water on the server that runs AI Jesus .... does that count?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

So sue them.
The AI Jesus is inside the confessional.