At a time when people are increasingly turning to AI to answer questions about life, newly published research led by Brigham Young University found that religious perspectives are being left out of AI responses.
“There are very practical questions people have about life, everyday situations about grief, love, loss, morality, and often AI does not bring religion into those conversations,” said lead researcher David Wingate, a BYU computer science professor, in a BYU news release dated May 26.
BYU researchers are working alongside evangelical, Catholic and Jewish computer scientists at Baylor University, the University of Notre Dame and Yeshiva University as part of the newly formed Consortium for Evaluation of Faith and Ethics in AI, or CEFE-AI. The group has released three studies so far on AI’s religious bias and exclusion of religious topics.