{"id":9010,"date":"2025-12-11T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:23:38","slug":"chatbots-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/12\/11\/chatbots-and-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbots and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/afa543a8-6d5f-4990-8efa-31c2f888edc0?utm_social_handle_id=did%3Aplc%3A5u54z2qgkq43dh2nzwzdbbhb&amp;utm_social_post_id=620015710\">Simon Kuper, Financial Times, Who needs a priest when you have a chatbot?, 11 Dec 2025<\/a>. &#8220;As technology acquires quasi-religious qualities, traditional faiths could be moving in a more solitary direction.&#8221; Some reference to Islam here. I&#8217;m working on chatbot issues at present.<br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Kuper, Financial Times, Who needs a priest when you have a chatbot?, 11 Dec 2025. &#8220;As technology acquires quasi-religious qualities, traditional faiths could be moving in a more solitary direction.&#8221; Some reference to Islam here. I&#8217;m working on chatbot issues at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatbots","tag-chatbots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","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=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}