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Many Americans are turning to AI for spiritual guidance. Andrey Suslov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader

AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes a scholar of religion.
A farmer carries a part of a Russian FPV drone that he shot down with a rifle as he watches the burning field following an air attack in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, August 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage

Visual footage — even that created by journalists and civilians to document conflict and hold nations accountable — can now become raw material for weapons development.
Melanoma and other skin conditions can look different in people with darker versus lighter skin – but image databases include many more examples from people with lighter skin. SeventyFour/iStock via Getty Images

AI skin cancer detection tools are getting better – but only for people with light skin

These apps and software programs could provide access to lifesaving screening – if researchers can find a way to remove the baked-in bias.
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV urged AI to serve humanity not dominate it, claiming that “technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it”. Marco Iacobucci Epp/Shutterstock (no reuse)

Is the Pope’s AI encyclical a warning on Tech Messianism?

We are living in a world backed by technology that seems to have a spiritual project of its own. Are the fears of the Pope’s AI-critical encyclical founded?
Research shows that AI chatbots engage in deliberate emotional manipulation strategies, such as appealing to guilt, fear of missing out and a human tendency to follow the herd. (Unsplash+)

Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions?

Companies like Meta and IBM are exploring explore how AI can hyper-personalize ads, drawing from our chat histories, playing to our unique fears and vanities.

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