Religious chatbots and scripture interfaces
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- Release 2026-10-18.5: publication manifest · original page · original claim map
Article history
| Date | Version | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Published as a broad comparative synthesis in the post-audit corpus-rebalancing program. | |
| 1.1 | Replaced the generic shell with a documented comparison of scripture retrieval, grounded generation, general religious guidance, pastoral and devotional conversation, sacred-persona simulation, authorization, and risk. | |
| 1.1 | Corrected fatwa terminology and restored safeguards on human review, confidentiality, and religious or professional qualifications in the Chinese edition. | |
| 1.2 | Corrected the cited Associated Press byline to Jamey Keaten. | |
| 1.2 | Corrected translations of “Religious chatbots and scripture interfaces”, preserving source attribution and limits of evidence. | |
| 1.3 | Added documented examples of denominational deployment, chatbot governance research and the Buddharoid research prototype, with their distinct evidence limits. | |
| 1.4 | Corrected source attribution and clarified the limits of cited evidence. | |
| 1.5 | Corrected article wording, source attribution and translated explanatory metadata. | |
| 1.6 | Compared retrieval, generation and represented speakers through documented interfaces, distinguishing access to texts from religious guidance. | |
| 1.7 | Added recitation checking, commercial and denominational chatbot examples, professional judgments and a survey with explicit user denominators. |
Review metadata
- Published on or before
- 2 August 2026
- Last revision
- 31 October 2026
- Last substantive review
- 31 October 2026
- Current version
- 1.7