Some people find God in a house of worship.

Some find God in nature or in other people.

And now, in 2025, there are people searching for God in the cloud. That is cloud singular, meaning that

network of remote servers that enable artificial intelligence. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.

I'm Chris Boyd. Like workers in many other professions, spiritual leaders have been experimenting with

platforms like chat GPT to help them perform daily tasks, including sermon writing.

And now some of the people using this technology for faith are daring to ask, is it possible God can speak through AI?

Eli Tan is a reporter for the New York Times covering the technology industry.

He read about this for the Times in an article headlined at the intersection of AI and spirituality.

Eli, welcome to think.

Thanks so much for having me on.

You open your story on Congregation Emmanuel in Houston, where this young associate rabbi wanted to deliver a sermon about being a good neighbor

in the age of AI. Tell us about his idea. Yeah, so he, this is actually how I kind of came

across the story. He basically, you know, delivers this sermon over the speakers about AI and about

being a good neighbor. And then after about a few minutes,

you know, he actually walks up to the Bama himself and he says, uh, the voice that you just heard

may have sounded like my words, but they weren't. They were, they were made by an AI. So it turns out

that he had basically programmed what he calls rabbi bot, which is an AI model trained on all of his old sermons, which can itself write and deliver in his own voice sermons that are kind of in his style.

Did he have to hire somebody to make Rabbi Bot?

He did, yeah. He actually hired a Muslim data scientist from the University of Washington,

and then they kind of collaborated and created the thing.

Why did he want to do this?

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