Is the the same as the "sex dolls" will replace sex workers?

It’s just a playback device with a metal body!

This is how nonsense about organised religion begins. Give it a body and something enigmatic to say and suddenly it is revered as holy.

Think we’ve been here before!

I doubt that we can know artificial intel before we know natural intel.

If robot priests don’t kill religion once and for all then nothing will.

Reminds me of Douglas Adams' electronic monks.

Give it a little time and it will be a robot who returned from the dead. At least it is more believable.

They are already here!

AI who? Yankovic?

Oh FFS, just what the world truly needs, NOT, robot priests with no empathy, etc, just spewing out tired old rhetoric and religious twaddle, Oh hang on a minute, Human Priests do that anyway don't they?
Have said all of that, I supposed the good news would be that robot Priests wouldn't abuse Altar Boys, etc, BUT they might suddenly decide to get fresh with Electrical fittings, devices like I-phones, I-pads,etc, etc, NOW that would be shocking....LOL.

Then they will create their own religion
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Nah, ttaining a robot to deliver preformed ideas and rituals, and include reactions to its environment, isnt really neurocally equivalent to believing.

The existence of AI and the potential for it to have human level intelligence is a huge philosophical problem for theology, and especially for christians.

Major religions will have to ask questions that may undermine a lot of their core assumptions, such as the assumption that a soul exists.

If you assume that robots don't have a soul because they were not divinely created, then you have to answer what happens to a robot's mind after it dies, or what happens to people who are created outside of natural birth.

If you assume that robots do have a soul, then questions about the morality of providing them tasking must be asked. Under this assumption, AI technology is basically the same then as locking an autistic child in a box and making it your slave.

Either way you have more problems then answers.

Fairly sure that if we teach religion to AI that that's the evidence they'll use to prove that they are superior to us, thus justifying our enslavement and eventual extermination of us by them.

No good can ever come from teaching religion to anything.

Why not? It's a mindless but programmed machine...and probably about as capable of empathy as you-know-who!
Religion's lasted milennia with mindless, programmed rhetoric....think of the money those churches could save.