A church in Switzerland experimented with artificial intelligence to create a digital version of Jesus, leading to a debate on if the move brought people closer to God or if it was just "blasphemous." ...

Visitors were invited to pose questions to the AI Jesus, viewed on a monitor behind a latticework screen. Courtesy of the Catholic Church of the City of Lucerne, CC BY This autumn, a Swiss Catholic ...

A Catholic church in Lucerne, Switzerland, has sparked conversation online by installing an artificial intelligence hologram of Jesus in one of its confessionals. The project, “Deus in Machina (God in ...

AI in the church? Is that something that’s really needed? Apparently, it’s being experimented with. Swapping out the priest for a more technological experience in the confessional booth, Peter’s ...

A Nov. 20 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) alerts people to a purported new offering at St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland. "NEW - A church in Switzerland is now using an AI hologram ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...

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