{"id":215731,"date":"2026-05-18T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/why-robot-monks-cannot-replace-human-faith-oped-eurasia-review\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:10:21","slug":"why-robot-monks-cannot-replace-human-faith-oped-eurasia-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/why-robot-monks-cannot-replace-human-faith-oped-eurasia-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Robot Monks Cannot Replace Human Faith \u2013 OpEd \u2013 Eurasia Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/18052026-why-robot-monks-cannot-replace-human-faith-oped\/\">Why Robot Monks Cannot Replace Human Faith \u2013 OpEd \u2013 Eurasia Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/18052026-why-robot-monks-cannot-replace-human-faith-oped\/\">https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/18052026-why-robot-monks-cannot-replace-human-faith-oped\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 12:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eurasiareview.com\">www.eurasiareview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent developments in robot monks in East Asia, including the unveiling of &#8220;Buddharoid&#8221; by Kyoto University and the first robot monk &#8220;Gabi&#8221; in South Korea, have sparked global interest and raised questions about AI&#8217;s potential role in religion.<\/li>\n<li>This rediscovery of robot monks follows a decade-old trend that began with the popular, though soon forgotten, robot monk Xian\u2019er, created by Longquan Monastery.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike past attention, Buddhist communities worldwide continue to innovate with AI, using it for translating scriptures, preserving manuscripts, and making Buddhist knowledge more accessible through digital archives and online platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Buddhist organizations view AI as a way to cater to younger, tech-savvy audiences and help sustain their communities, which are aging and facing renewal challenges.<\/li>\n<li>However, AI cannot replace human religious teachers due to the lack of consciousness, moral awareness, and spiritual experience in machines. Buddhism emphasizes spiritual practice over mere information.<\/li>\n<li>Religion is fundamentally experiential, relying on embodied practices and emotional connections that machines cannot replicate, and relies on human emotions and compassionate connections that cannot be automated.<\/li>\n<li>Despite technological advancements, human faith and the experiential aspects of religion are irreplaceable by any machine, highlighting the need for both spiritual and technological advancements in the future of religion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Robot Monks Cannot Replace Human Faith \u2013 OpEd \u2013 Eurasia Review https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/18052026-why-robot-monks-cannot-replace-human-faith-oped\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a-144.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215731","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\/215731"}],"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=215731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215733,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215731\/revisions\/215733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}