{"id":193278,"date":"2024-07-21T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/god-chatbots-offer-spiritual-insights-on-demand-what-could-go-wrong"},"modified":"2024-07-21T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T23:26:41","slug":"god-chatbots-offer-spiritual-insights-on-demand-what-could-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/god-chatbots-offer-spiritual-insights-on-demand-what-could-go-wrong","title":{"rendered":"God Chatbots Offer Spiritual Insights on Demand. What Could Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/god-chatbots-offer-spiritual-insights-on-demand-what-could-go-wrong2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large language models trained on religious texts claim to offer spiritual insights on demand. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/webb-wright\/\">Webb Wright<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just before midnight on the first day of Ramadan last year, Raihan Khan\u2014a 20-year-old Muslim student living in Kolkata\u2014announced in a LinkedIn post that he had launched QuranGPT, an artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot he had designed to answer questions and provide advice based on Islam\u2019s holiest text. Then he went to sleep. He awoke seven hours later to find it had crashed because of an overflow of traffic. A lot of the comments were positive, but others were not. Some were flat-out threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models trained on religious texts claim to offer spiritual insights on demand. What could go wrong? By Webb Wright Just before midnight on the first day of Ramadan last year, Raihan Khan\u2014a 20-year-old Muslim student living in Kolkata\u2014announced in a LinkedIn post that he had launched QuranGPT, an artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot he had designed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193278","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}