{"id":191932,"date":"2026-03-02T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/technology-and-religion-have-been-intertwined-for-millennia-so-whats-different-about-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:15:09","slug":"technology-and-religion-have-been-intertwined-for-millennia-so-whats-different-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/technology-and-religion-have-been-intertwined-for-millennia-so-whats-different-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and religion have been intertwined for millennia \u2014 so what\u2019s different about AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/technology-and-religion-intertwined-for-millennia-ai\/106406710\">Technology and religion have been intertwined for millennia \u2014 so what\u2019s different about AI?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/technology-and-religion-intertwined-for-millennia-ai\/106406710\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/technology-and-religion-intertwined-for-millennia-ai\/106406710<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 00:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.abc.net.au\">www.abc.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV warns against the use of AI companionship and advice apps that exploit human emotional needs.<\/li>\n<li>New AI technologies facilitate conversations between worshippers and religious figures like God, Jesus, and biblical prophets through personalized, tailored interactions.<\/li>\n<li>Many people react vehemently to AI&#8217;s role in spirituality, seeing a conflict between organic, personal spiritual pursuits and technological devices.<\/li>\n<li>Historical perspective shows that technology and religious practices have long been intertwined, from ancient oracles to mechanical devices simulating divine intervention.<\/li>\n<li>AI is now being used to depict biblical stories and represent God, continuing a long tradition of religious figures using technology to convey their doctrines. <\/li>\n<li>There is tension between embracing new technological innovation in religion and maintaining traditional religious practices and beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Some propose that AI could become god-like through unpredictable &#8220;emergent properties&#8221;, representing a unique shift in human agency where humans increasingly rely on autonomous, non-human-driven technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology and religion have been intertwined for millennia \u2014 so what\u2019s different about AI? https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/technology-and-religion-intertwined-for-millennia-ai\/106406710&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/ed7d3411ccc04429aa93f08057cc9119?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2250&cropW=4000&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191934,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191932\/revisions\/191934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}