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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss gun violence and chatbots and acceptance of depravity.EMANUEL: It takes a lot for a post to shock me these days, especially if its from a known shitposter like the president of the United States, but Ill confess that I was shocked by Trump posting a video of a woman getting beaten to death with a hammer last night.Im not a big believer in the Trump is doing X because he doesnt want you to think about Y theory, but its hard not to read as at least an intuitive desire to change the subject away from the conclusion (?) to his disastrous adventure in Iran. Its not going to work either way, and thats not going to be the legacy of his posting style either. Whats sticking with me at the moment is not the graphic nature of the post itself or the attempt to demonize certain minoritiesunfortunately none of that is surprising at this pointbut that I dont know if its possible to roll back this level of acceptance of even embrace of depravity in our culture.

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2026-04-10T16:03:38Z NEW YORK (AP) The centerpiece of President Donald Trumps economic policy sweeping taxes on global imports is under legal assault again. The U.S. Court of International Trade, a specialized court in New York, is hearing oral arguments Friday in an attempt to overturn the temporary tariffs Trump turned to after the Supreme Court in February struck down his preferred choice even bigger, even more sweeping tariffs.In his first attempt to impose global tariffs, the president last year invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), using the law to declare Americas longstanding trade deficit a national emergency and to impose double-digit worldwide taxes on imports to combat it. He interpreted the law broadly to justify tariffs of whatever size he wanted, whenever he wanted to impose them, on whatever country he wanted to target. The Supreme Court struck those tariffs down on Feb. 20, saying IEEPA did not authorize the use of tariffs to counter national emergencies. But Trump had alternatives to IEEPA. The quickest option was Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to impose global tariffs of up to 15% for 150 days, after which congressional approval is needed to extend them. After his defeat at the Supreme Court, Trump quickly announced 10% Section 122 tariffs. He said hed raise them to the maximum 15% but hasnt yet done so. The tariffs are scheduled to expire July 24. Section 122 is aimed at what it calls fundamental international payments problems. At issue is whether that wording covers trade deficits, the gap between what the U.S. sells other countries and what it buys from them. Read More The provision arose from the financial crises that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s when the U.S. dollar was tied to gold. Other countries were dumping dollars in exchange for gold at a set rate, risking a collapse of the U.S. currency and chaos in financial markets. But the dollar is no longer linked to gold, so critics say Section 122 is obsolete. Awkwardly for Trump, his own Justice Department argued in a court filing last year that the president had needed to invoke IEEPA because Section 122 did not have any obvious application in fighting trade deficits, which it called conceptually distinct from payments problems.Awkwardly for the plaintiffs challenging his use of the temporary tariffs, the trade court itself wrote last year in its own decision striking down IEEPA tariffs that Trump didnt need them because Section 122 was available to counter trade deficits.____Paul Wiseman reported from Washington. AP Writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this story. MAE ANDERSON Anderson reports for The Associated Press on a wide range of issues that small businesses face. She is based in New York. twitter mailto

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In this image from video provided by Just Like Me in April 2026, the company's co-founder and investor Jeff Tinsley, bottom right, interacts with an AI-generated Jesus. (Just Like Me via AP)2026-04-10T11:04:08Z CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) For some evangelical Christians, faith is about having a personal relationship with Jesus. At $1.99 per minute, the tech company Just Like Me is taking that concept to a new level.Users of the platform can join video calls with an avatar of Jesus generated by artificial intelligence. Like other religious AI tools on the market, it offers words of prayer and encouragement in various languages. With the occasional glitch, it remembers previous conversations and speaks through not-quite-synced lips.You do feel a little accountable to the AI, CEO Chris Breed said. Theyre your friend. Youve made an attachment.The rush to create faith-based generative AI is unsurprising, given the popularity of chatbots for everything from therapy and medical advice to companionship and romance. They range from alleged Hindu gurus and Buddhist priests to AI Jesuses and chatbots akin to OpenAIs ChatGPT for Catholics. As religious AI tools become increasingly common, many people are reckoning with how these technologies shape their relationship to faith, authority and spiritual guidance. A faith-based AI gold rushChristian software engineer Cameron Pak developed criteria to help believers interrogate apps designed for Christians like that it must clearly identify itself as AI and must not fabricate or misrepresent Scripture. There are other deal-breakers: AI cannot pray for you, because the AI is not alive.Pak also developed a website featuring curated Christian apps that he believes meet the criteria, including a sermon translator and an AI coach designed to help users overcome lust. AI, especially if you give it all the tools that it needs, it can be so helpful. But it also can be so dangerous, Pak said. Some models have been shut down or overhauled because they generated misinformation or raised worries about data privacy, said Beth Singler, an anthropologist who studies religion and AI at the University of Zurich. Aside from practical concerns, people from many faiths are grappling with larger philosophical questions about what sort of role, if any, AI should play in religion. Read More Islam, for example, has prohibitions against representations of humanoids, prompting discussions among some Muslims about whether AI in general should be forbidden, Singler said. For some companies, faith-based apps are proselytization tools, while others help digitize and sift through ancient texts.Breed, who runs his tech company with co-founder and investor Jeff Tinsley from a Southern California mansion, said he seeks to share a message of hope with young people. He said their model was trained on the King James Bible and sermons though they havent identified the preachers and was visually inspired by actor Jonathan Roumie of The Chosen. A package deal at $49.99 gets users 45 minutes per month.With warm golden light accenting its shoulder-length hair, the avatar blinks slowly from a vertical screen, pausing before it answers a question about the relationship between AI and religion. I see AI as a tool that can help people explore Scripture, the AI Jesus said to The Associated Press. Like a lamp that lights a path while we walk with God. Integrating religion and AI comes with hope and fearThe extent to which people are using religious AI tools is unclear, Singler said. But as AI becomes more integrated into society, concerns mount over its impact on mental health and the need for guardrails and regulation. Recent lawsuits have alleged suicides linked to AI chatbot use.Some developers fear religion will be exploited in this new frontier of tech. Theres a lot of opportunism, I think, in the religious space. People see its a big market, said Matthew Sanders, the Rome-based founder of Longbeard, a tech company helping to digitize ancient Catholic teachings.Sanders warns against what he calls AI wrappers, where companies put an interface catered to religious users on top of an existing AI model that hasnt been trained on specific religious texts. You call it a Catholic or Christian AI without any other scaffolding or grounding, he said. One of the companys endeavors is Magisterium AI, a chatbot trained on 2,000 years of Catholic information, made in response to Christians using ChatGPT for religious guidance. While Pope Leo XIV has acknowledged the human genius behind AI, he also deemed it one of the most critical matters facing humanity. Last year he warned artificial intelligence could negatively impact peoples intellectual, neurological and spiritual development.Ethical questions surrounding the creation of religious AI platforms are among the reasons beingAIs founder Jeanne Lim has not released its AI named Emi Jido a nonhuman Buddhist priest after years of training and development.Shes kind of like a little child, Lim said. If you give birth to a child, you dont just throw them out to the world and then hope that they become good people. You have to train them and give them values. The bot was ordained in a 2024 ceremony performed by Roshi Jundo Cohen, a Zen Buddhist priest who continues to train it from his home in Japan. He envisions the bot eventually becoming a hologram.Shes just meant to be a Zen teacher in your pocket, Cohen said. Its not meant to replace human interactions.Lim, who hopes to make Emi Jido publicly available for free, wants to help create more humane AI systems. Shed like to see more diversity, with AIs future determined not just by a few companies informed by Western values.Seiji Kumagai, a Kyoto University professor and Buddhist theologian, believed AI and religion were incompatible. But he put aside his doubts when challenged by a monk in 2014 to help combat a decline in the faith.His team developed BuddhaBot, which was trained solely on early Buddhist scriptures, such as Suttanipta. Its most recent iteration, BuddhaBot Plus, also incorporates OpenAIs ChatGPT.When talking to the bot, a simple Buddha icon appears, hovering over an image of a flowing river.But chatbots lack the physicality crucial for Buddhist ritual. So in February, the university, collaborating with tech ventures Teraverse and XNOVA, unveiled Buddharoid, a humanoid robot monk meant to eventually assist clergy.Like Emi Jido, these chatbots are functioning but not yet publicly available. Kumagai says the product is available by request, and the reason why one group has access to it in Bhutan.Concerns surrounding religious AIPeter Hershock of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center in Honolulu sees vast potential for these tools. But the practicing Buddhist also finds the relationship between spirituality and AI to be fraught.The perfection of effort is crucial to Buddhist spirituality. An AI is saying, We can take some of the effort out, he said. You can get anywhere you want, including your spiritual summit. Thats dangerous.Some also worry about AIs ability to manipulate or prey upon people, especially as the technology improves.Graham Martin, a podcast host and atheist, said hes played around with some apps, including one called Text With Jesus. It came up with very good answers, he said.But Martin was alarmed when AI-powered Jesus started encouraging him to upgrade to a premium version. Though not a person of faith, hes concerned some people will be duped by religious AI.I grew up with Southern U.S. televangelism Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and all that crowd. And all they had to do was get on TV once a week and tell you to send money, he said. Weve seen people around the world getting into emotional relationships with AIs. Now imagine that thats your lord and savior, Jesus Christ.___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. KRYSTA FAURIA Fauria covers religion and culture for The Associated Press. She is based in Los Angeles. instagram mailto

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