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Monday, July 21, 2025

Religious advice and sermons are replaced by AI, and they are even more accurate because they understand humans more deeply than people themselves.

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IN a 400-year-old temple in Kyoto, Japan, lives a priest named Mindar. Mindar is neither male nor female. Its body is made of aluminum, its skin silicone. Mindar is not human, of course. It is a robot equipped with artificial intelligence (AI). But, like a human priest, it gives sermons and blessings and is available to answer religious questions.

Elsewhere, in Warsaw, Poland, lives a white-robed “priest” named Santo. It cannot

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