Tech Firms Recruit Clergy for AI Ethics

Major AI companies are holding formal meetings with religious leaders to advise on how chatbots should handle spiritual, moral, and end‑of‑life questions. These gatherings include debates about whether advanced models might deserve moral consideration and how they should address grieving or suicidal users. — If platforms bake religiously informed moral scripts into AI, those companies will effectively institutionalize particular ethical frameworks across millions of interactions, shifting cultural authority and complicating regulation.