If you find yourself in the Swiss tourist destination of Lucerne with a guilty conscience, there's someone waiting at the historic Peterskapelle Catho

AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church

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2024-11-23 14:00:08

If you find yourself in the Swiss tourist destination of Lucerne with a guilty conscience, there's someone waiting at the historic Peterskapelle Catholic Church to hear your prayers - someone who cares, you might say: Your own personal AI Jesus. 

An "experimental art installation" dubbed "Deus in Machina" by the St. Peter's Church in Lucerne has seen a confessional booth outfitted with a vertically aligned monitor, a bunch of computer equipment and a big blue button for adventurous penitents willing to ask questions to AI Jesus (or is that JAIsus?) in one of 100 languages he's programmed to speak and respond in. 

Don't take AI Jesus' advice as a replacement for the sacrament of confession, however: the church notes on its website that the "heavenly hologram" is ready to hear thoughts, questions and dispense advice, but it "is explicitly not a confession." 

Jesus himself - his AI avatar, that is - even warns visitors to keep the PII to a minimum, according to a report by German international news outlet Deutsche Welle (DW). 

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