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Deus Ex Machina: Half of US Christians Trust AI's Spiritual Advice

Practicing Christians show higher openness to AI for spiritual growth, while 72% worry it could replace pastors or spiritual leaders, Barna said.

Summary by The Register
Who needs a minister when you have an LLM? America’s Christian population appears to have found God in precisely the place you’d expect a manifestation of the divine to be spotted in 2026: Amid AI chatbot responses. A survey of Americans published this week by Evangelical polling outfit Barna sought to discover what Christians thought about AI’s ability to serve as a spiritual mentor, and the split is surprisingly even: A full 48 percent of prac…

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