Friedberg @ 00:23:29Right
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In the future, commercially or publicly available AI systems will be released that are explicitly tuned to specific religious beliefs (e.g., 'religious AIs' for different faiths).
I do think we'll end up seeing religious AI. I think we'll see AI that's tuned to people's religious beliefs.View on YouTube
Explanation
By the time of (and even before) the August 1, 2025 episode, there were already multiple AI systems explicitly tuned to particular religious beliefs and available to the public:
- Hindu-specific: GitaGPT is a GPT‑3–based chatbot trained on the Bhagavad Gita to answer life questions using its verses, described as a ChatGPT‑like platform for “Gita ka gyaan” (wisdom from the Gita).(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- Islam-specific: A range of bots such as QuranGPT, HadithGPT, and Islam & AI focus on answering questions from the Quran and/or Hadith; a 2023 feature explicitly refers to such systems as “religious AI chatbots,” noting they are trained on Islamic scriptures and used by tens of thousands of users across many countries.(thenationalnews.com)
- Christian-specific: Multiple BibleGPT products exist, including a web service positioning itself as an “AI Bible companion” that provides scripture‑rooted answers, and an iOS/Android app BibleGPT: Study Bible with AI that markets “AI-powered answers to your Biblical and Christian questions,” offered with free and paid tiers on mainstream app stores.(biblegpt-la.com)
- Catholic-specific: Magisterium AI, created by Longbeard, is explicitly branded as “Catholic AI,” built on a curated database of about 27,000 Catholic documents and marketed as a tool to answer questions on Catholic doctrine; it has tens of thousands of monthly users and is integrated into the commercial Hallow prayer app.(washingtonpost.com)
These systems are all commercially or publicly available AI tools, intentionally trained or constrained to specific religious corpora and faith traditions, matching the idea of “religious AI” tuned to users’ beliefs. Because such products clearly existed (and have grown more numerous) by late 2025, the prediction that we would “see AI that’s tuned to people’s religious beliefs” has, in substance, come true.