Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

Who needs a minister when you have an LLM? America’s Christian population appears to have found God in precisely the place you’d expect a manifestation of the divine to be spotted in 2026: Amid AI chatbot responses. A survey of Americans published this week by Evangelical polling outfit Barna sought to discover what Christians thought about AI’s ability to serve as a spiritual mentor, and the split is surprisingly even: A full 48 percent of practicing US Christians told the organization that the