{"id":169589,"date":"2023-08-12T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/robot-preachers-unwelcome-by-faith-community-according-to-a-new-study"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:23:23","slug":"robot-preachers-unwelcome-by-faith-community-according-to-a-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/robot-preachers-unwelcome-by-faith-community-according-to-a-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Robot Preachers Unwelcome by Faith Community, According to a New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-preachers-unwelcome-by-faith-community-according-to-a-new-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine walking into your local place of worship, finding your seat, and getting ready to hear a sermon. But instead of your familiar priest, minister, or rabbi, a robot steps up to deliver the day\u2019s message. It might sound like science fiction, but it\u2019s becoming a real possibility in some parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Can a machine really lead a religious service? Would people accept a robot as a spiritual guide? A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/journals\/releases\/xge-xge0001443.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a> decided to find out, and the results might surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine walking into your local place of worship, finding your seat, and getting ready to hear a sermon. But instead of your familiar priest, minister, or rabbi, a robot steps up to deliver the day\u2019s message. It might sound like science fiction, but it\u2019s becoming a real possibility in some parts of the world. Can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}