{"id":8449,"date":"2025-06-01T21:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2025-06-01T21:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:18:45","slug":"ai-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/06\/01\/ai-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lqfxbdmtmc2n\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigg4sfyojobbb6hz3giwxomqqoldldiqjbgv34orprmbbwqpx4xty\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">\u201cThe so-called Smart Sharia Officers are seen by critics as contradicting Islamic principles that emphasise learning the faith through human interaction and community. \u201c<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lqfxbdmtmc2n?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lqfxbdmtmc2n?ref_src=embed\">30 May 2025 at 20:20<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obnews.co\/Flow\/News\/id\/10658348.html\">Newspoint, AI Maulana Sparks Storm in Malaysia: Can Machines Preach Islam?, 30 May 2025?<\/a> &#8220;Religious experts are warning that this may be the commodification of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is not da\u2019wah, it\u2019s digital marketing,\u201d said one scholar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concern: AI could be used to manufacture religious credibility, bypassing the rigorous training and spiritual discipline that human scholars undergo.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These points are discussed in Islamic Algorithms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe so-called Smart Sharia Officers are seen by critics as contradicting Islamic principles that emphasise learning the faith through human interaction and community. \u201c [image or embed] &mdash; Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 30 May 2025 at 20:20 Also see: Newspoint, AI Maulana Sparks Storm in Malaysia: Can Machines Preach Islam?, 30 May 2025? &#8220;Religious experts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,998,305,53],"tags":[85,207,56,54],"class_list":["post-8449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-chatbots","category-malaysia","category-religious-authority","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatbots","tag-malaysia","tag-religious-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}