Have you ever imagined arriving at church for your usual confession and meeting none other than Jesus Christ? Find out what the technological (and theological) experience in Switzerland was like
Have you ever thought about going to church to confess your sins and come face to face with none other than Jesus Christ? This is exactly what the oldest Catholic church in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland did! Capela de São Pedro has decided to replace the traditional priest with an artificial intelligence avatar to work in the confessional and speak to the faithful in more than 100 languages!
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Avatar of Jesus Christ
The experiment, which came into force in August this year, worked like this: on the other side of the confessional, a screen where believers could see the classic image of Jesus. Therefore, he answered questions in real time. During the two months of operation of the installation, more than a thousand people, of different religions and from different parts of the world, went to the site.
Marco Schmid, theologian of the church, in an interview with the newspaper The Guardian, he said the goal was to understand how people would react: “We wanted to find out what they would talk to him about. Would they be interested in talking? We are probably pioneers in this. We thought about creating an avatar of a theologian, an ordinary person or a saint, but we concluded that the best figure would be Jesus same”, he stated.
The project, the result of a collaboration between the Church and the research laboratory of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU), has been criticized. Many questioned whether it was okay to use technology for religious purposes. Furthermore, one of the challenges of the tool was to minimize the risk that AI Jesus would provide inadequate responses to the population or, indeed, that it would not follow the teachings of the Catholic Church.
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Source: Terra
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