Seminaries prompt students to ask: Can AI write a sermon?

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Seminaries prompt students to ask: Can AI write a sermon?

(RNS) — This summer, Mark Andrew Jefferson, who was leading a teaching workshop at Princeton Theological Seminary, prompted ChatGPT to write a homily based on the Gospel of Luke’s parable of the good Samaritan. For good measure, he ordered the artificial intelligence engine to mimic the style of the late, legendary evangelist Billy Graham. When Jefferson showed the results to the students in his workshop, they were split on the possibilities of …