The UK’s Department for Education has crunched the numbers and found that the country’s clergy of all things is among the professions most at risk from AI.

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It is indeed peculiar to find that religious roles are so exposed to the technology – the 13th highest ranking for large language models (LLMs) – when spirituality is by all accounts an entirely human phenomenon.

All the same, ChatGPT garnered headlines earlier this year after 300 churchgoers attended a service led by OpenAI’s LLM in Germany. As we reported, some dismissed it for having “no heart or soul,” while others said they were “pleasantly surprised how well it worked.”