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The Automatic Faith Project: What happens when you ask AI to create a religion?

May 9, 2025

AI chat bots seem to value "harmony" when asked to create a religion from scratch. By Madison Embry Have you ever considered what AI’s religion is? Most people likely haven’t, as the ability to develop religious beliefs has always been categorically human. However, with the recent…

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The Automatic Faith Project: Some religious leaders see the dawn of artificial intelligence as a "Gutenberg moment"

May 9, 2025

By Emma Hardy Andy Brown, the senior pastor at First Baptist Church Starkville, talks through the phone with a fountain pen in his hand. His notepad is sitting in front of him with the reporter’s name on it at the top, and he is ready to converse, share ideas, and take notes about artificial…

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The Automatic Faith Project: What happens when you ask AI questions about God?

April 14, 2025

"The Automatic Faith Project" was undertaken by students in CO4494 Bulldog Online Newsroom in Spring 2025. The goal of the project is to think about how a new technology, AI, interacts with an ancient facet of the human experience, religion. By Emma Nisbet What happens when two pastors…

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Essay: Why is it so hard to eat without YouTube?

April 9, 2025

By Ella Hahs Class was finally over. I hightailed it back home, the sound of my stomach grumbling overshadowing the Fleetwood Mac blaring through my car speakers. My feet pounded up the dusty steps of my apartment and my backpack flew from my grip onto the leather chair in the corner…

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