People around the world are turning to machines as a new religion. Six-foot robot priests are delivering sermons and conducting funerals, AI is writing Bible verses and ChatGPT is being consulted as if it was an oracle. Some religious organizations, like the Turing Church founded in 2011, are based on the notion that AI will put human beings on a par with God-like aliens by giving them super intelligence. An expert in human-computer interaction told DailyMail.com The personalized, intelligent-seeming responses offered by bots, such as ChatGPT, are also luring people to seek meaning from the technology, Lars Holmquist, a professor of design and innovation at Nottingham Trent University, told DailyMail.com.

The Protestant Church in Germany has unveiled a robotic priest called BlessU-2 to mark 500 years since the Reformation. The machine delivers various blessings in eight languages. It's being presented to church-goers in the town of Wittenberg, which was the place most closely associated with Martin Luther and the birth of Protestantism.