Can AI robots replace human priests?
The researchers conducted three separate studies to draw these conclusions. The first study took place in Kodaiji Temple in Japan, where they surveyed individuals leaving the Temple who had either seen Mindar, a humanoid robot, give a sermon or had seen a human preacher give a sermon. No participant saw both. Researchers found that participants who viewed Mindar were less likely to believe in God than participants who viewed the human preacher.
The second study was a preregistered experiment conducted in a Taoist temple in Singapore. Half of the participants heard a sermon written by a priest, and the other half from a humanoid robot called Pepper. The results mirrored the first study. The participants gave less donations and viewed the humanoid robot with less credibility.
The third study had participants from the US who read a sermon online. The researchers wanted to test whether participants would anticipate less religious commitment after witnessing an AI-generated versus a human-generated sermon. Half of the participants were told that a human wrote the sermon, whereas the other half were told that AI wrote the sermon. Participants in the AI sermon group reported the sermon was less credible because they felt an AI program had less capacity to think or feel like a human.had reported on a similar story in which a sermon was led by ChatGPT, for the first time, at a church service in Germany, which included 40 minutes of prayers, music, and sermons amid a congregation of 300 people.
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