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On 20 October 2026, the Centre for Interreligious Studies (ZIRS) at the University of Innsbruck<\/strong><\/a>, a partner institution of Pluriel, opened the semester of its online interreligious conversation series “Miteinander Zukunft gestalten” (“Shaping the Future Together”) with a deliberately provocative question: “Artificial Intelligence, a New God?”. Moderated by Azemina Ma\u0161eti\u0107, the dialogue brought together the philosopher and theologian Claudia Paganini (Institute of Christian Philosophy) and the Muslim philosopher and theologian Hureyre Kam (Institute of Islamic Theology and Religious Education).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author of Der neue Gott. K\u00fcnstliche Intelligenz und die menschliche Sinnsuche<\/em> (The New God: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Search for Meaning, Herder, 2025), Claudia Paganini does not argue that AI is a god, but that many people treat it as one, ascribing to it the attributes that the history of religions has associated with gods: omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence. In a time of multiple crises and of upheaval in the media, AI also meets a very contemporary need for immediate availability, whereas the God of the Abrahamic religions remains beyond our disposal and calls for humility and patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A specialist in al-M\u0101tur\u012bd\u012b and in debates on transhumanism, Hureyre Kam tests these features in the light of the Qur’an. AI is available in the way a commodity is, whereas the God of the Qur’an lies beyond all control; its presence comes above all from the fact that it flatters us and reflects our own image back to us, whereas God tests human beings. It is therefore not the machine that is an idol: in his view, it becomes one when we raise our own desire to supreme authority, which Surah 25 (verse 43) reproaches in the one who takes his own passion as his god. There remains the efficacy of autonomous agents, which raises a newer question. Drawing on al-M\u0101tur\u012bd\u012b’s distinction between the creation of an act and its appropriation through free choice, he recalls that pursuing a goal is not enough to make an agent responsible: responsibility, the am\u0101na<\/em> entrusted to humankind (Surah 33, verse 72), lies with those who design, test and deploy these systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversation, followed by an exchange with the audience, was held in German (see the ZIRS page<\/strong><\/a>). The next event in the series, “W\u00fcrdevoll sterben?” (“Dying with Dignity?”), will bring together Sigrid M\u00fcller and Martin Mahmud Kellner on 24 November 2026 at 6 pm (Central European Time), online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37936,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"date_tournage":"2026-10-20","lieu":"En ligne","nature_evenement":"Entretien","vt_type":"Entretien","vt_yt_views":0},"video_collection":[],"class_list":["post-37943","videos","type-videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"2026-10-20","yoast_head":"\nArtificial Intelligence, a New God? 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