RELIGION | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Christianity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A collision of two worlds
What happens when artificial intelligence discovers the power of faith?
With each year that passes, religion in America loses some of its appeal. According to the latest Pew Research Center survey, just within the last five years, the number of people who identify as non-religious has gone up 6%, now reaching nearly 30% of the American public. This figure is 10% higher than it was just a mere decade ago.
To those outside of religion, this trend makes sense. There’s little place for scripture in this impossibly modern world of ours. It’s not the members of the congregation, though, that can always see that. But in the time of iPhones, Zoom calls, the internet and artificial intelligence, it’s growing harder to dispute that religion is losing some of its relatability.
For most of my life, I’ve been surprised that religion has remained such a dominant force. To see how worship manifested during the advent of the internet, though, was an especially puzzling moment to witness.
I first began to notice its presence in the way that Christianity pervaded my Facebook feed in the early 2010’s.
