{"id":87184,"date":"2026-10-04T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87184"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:03:04","slug":"deus-in-machina-swiss-church-installs-ai-powered-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/deus-in-machina-swiss-church-installs-ai-powered-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Deus In Machina: Swiss Church Installs AI-Powered Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8ed3f9a66a9f39a10a9691ddf9128f0d354f7835\/0_299_1063_1148\/master\/1063.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"An illustration of Jesus, generated by AI.\" width=\"359\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The small, unadorned church has long ranked as the oldest in the Swiss city of Lucerne. But Peter\u2019s chapel has become synonymous with all that is new after it installed an artificial intelligence-powered Jesus capable of dialoguing in 100 different languages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt was really an experiment,\u201d said Marco Schmid, a theologian with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kathluzern.ch\/meine-kirche\/pfarreien-standorte\/peterskapelle\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Peterskapelle church.<\/a> \u201cWe wanted to see and understand how people react to an AI Jesus. What would they talk with him about? Would there be interest in talking to him? We\u2019re probably pioneers in this.\u201d While data on the installation will be presented next week, feedback from more than 230 users suggested two-thirds of them had found it to be a \u201cspiritual experience\u201d, said Schmid. \u201cSo we can say they had a religiously positive moment with this AI Jesus. For me, that was surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: The small, unadorned church has long ranked as the oldest in the Swiss city of Lucerne. But.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87185,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184\/revisions\/87185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}