CISS Affiliate Margarita Guillory Studies Pros, Cons of Tech and AI in Religion
Should you talk to God using an app? It may come as a surprise that the first chatbot was invented in the 1960s. Eliza, developed at MIT, took questions from users via electric typewriters hooked to mainframes. One of those questions, says Boston University’s Margarita Guillory, was, “Are you God?”
Can you find God in cyberspace? We asked Guillory, author of Africana Religion in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2024), who’s teaching Religion in the Digital Age this semester…
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