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 ...

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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 ...

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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(THE CONVERSATION) In the autum on 2024, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. This hologram of Jesus Christ on a screen was animated by an ...