Society needs artificial intelligence to respectfully and accurately portray all religious beliefs, so a coalition of faith-based schools is creating a system to test how AI programs respond to questions about religion, an apostle said Tuesday in Vatican City.

AI is becoming a primary source of information about faith traditions as more people ask it about faith and belief, said Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“Portraying faith traditions accurately or respectfully is not an imposition of religion on AI. Rather, it is a public necessity,” he said on the first day of meetings at the Rome Summit on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence.

The morning after they toured the Sistine Chapel together, Elder Gong and other

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