Pope Leo XIV made his first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025 in Vatican City, and touched upon the rise of artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV made his first address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025 in Vatican City, and touched upon the rise of artificial intelligence. As technologists race to accelerate AI's progress with minimal guardrails, they are being met with increasing resistance from a powerful global contingent: Christian leaders and their congregations. Christians are not a monolith by any means. But this year, Christian leaders across sects--including Catholics, Evangelicals, and Baptists--sounded the alarm on AI's potential impact on family, human relationships, labor, and the church itself.

Tech entrepreneur Yossi Tsuria wanted to find out. He asked the AI chatbot to generate a prayer. If Joe was praying for his son's health, Mr. Tsuria asked in 2023, how should he pray? The machine responded, "Heavenly Father, In this trying time, I come before you with a heavy heart." Could your next spiritual guide be artificial intelligence?

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joins'America's Newsroom' along with 15-year-old AI deep fake victim Elliston Berry to discuss the importance of the'Take It Down' bill, warning the issue is'rising every day.' Evangelical leaders praised President Donald Trump for his leadership on artificial intelligence ("AI") in an open letter published last week, while cautioning him to ensure the technology is developed responsibly. Dubbing Trump the "AI President," the religious leaders wrote that they believe Trump is there by "Divine Providence" to guide the world on the future of AI. The signatories said they are "pro-science" and fully support the advancement of technology which benefits their own ministries around the world. "We are also pro-economic prosperity and economic leadership for America and our friends. We do not want to see the AI revolution slowing, but we want to see the AI revolution accelerating responsibly," the letter says.

Angie Wisdom and Dr. Chirag Shah discuss how artificial intelligence could play a role in online and professional relationships. As national conversations around artifical intelligence (AI) intensify, faith leaders and scholars are examining the potential ramifications these emerging technologies will have on worship – both its practice and its role in modern life. Some experts and faith leaders are also concerned about whether religion will have any place in AI programming – or if the intellectual will eventually take precedence over the spiritual in society. It's possible and even probable, say experts. Dan Schneider, Media Research Center and Free Speech America vice president, is both blunt and emphatic in his assessment of AI. "The [political] left controls AI, and the left is going to what the left wants to do," Schneider, whose headquarters are in Reston, Virginia, told Fox News Digital in a recent phone interview.

"Write a sermon in the voice of a rabbi of about 1,000 words that relates the Torah portion Vayigash to intimacy and vulnerability. That was the prompt rabbi Joshua Franklin put in ChatGPT, the results of which he used to deliver a sermon to congregants of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in December 2022. The sermon the chatbot came up with spoke of Joseph, the son of Jacob and a prophet in the Abrahamic faiths. It quoted from a book by Brown, a professor who specializes on topics of intimacy, to define vulnerability as "the willingness to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome". Being vulnerable could mean "we are able to form deeper, more meaningful bonds with those around us", the chat bot wrote. It wasn't the greatest sermon, Franklin thought, but it was passable. And that was his point. The irony of the AI-written speech about vulnerability and human connection was that it lacked exactly what it preached: human vulnerability and emotion. "It actually had a little bit of content to it," he said. "And the congregation thought it was written by some other famous rabbis.

A New York Rabbi recently went viral for delivering a sermon written by ChatGPT to his congregation, causing many to question the humanity in such an act. Think of ChatGPT as a far more sophisticated version of Google. It's an AI language model designed to generate human-like responses to various questions, from recipes to historical context to computer code and much more in mere seconds. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER It's surpassed the million-user marker in about a week of its introduction. For context, it took companies like Facebook several months to achieve the same success.

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Omidyar Network, and John S. and the James L. Knight Foundation have today joined forces to create the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund. The research fund will focus on AI for the public good and will bring a more diverse range of voices, like faith leaders and policymakers, to AI research and development. Issues the fund may address include ethical design, potential harmful and beneficial impacts of AI, and AI that works in the public interest. "Artificial intelligence and complex algorithms, fueled by big data and deep-learning systems, are quickly changing how we live and work -- from the news stories we see, to the loans for which we qualify, to the jobs we perform," the group said in a statement provided to VentureBeat. "Because of this pervasive but often concealed impact, it is imperative that AI research and development be shaped by a broad range of voices -- not only by engineers and corporations, but also by social scientists, ethicists, philosophers, faith leaders, economists, lawyers and policymakers."