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Mother Teresa's Sainthood Marked In Native Macedonia

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Ð"еÑ�Ñ‚, Sept. 5

She had been dubbed "the saint of the gutters," she will now be remembered as "Saint Teresa of Calcutta" after Pope Francis canonized the Catholic nun at a ceremony Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, had devoted her life to helping the poor in India, particularly in Kolkata (the Catholic Church decided to use the former "Calcutta" spelling, which India changed in 2001).

Though her charitable work will always be connected with India, she was actually born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu from Kosovar Albanian parents in Üsküb (then part of the Ottoman Empire, now Skopje, Macedonia), before moving to Ireland and eventually Kolkata.

Macedonian-language daily Ð"еÑ�Ñ‚("Vest"), based in Mother Teresa's native Skopje, featured the newly canonized nun on its Monday front page with a single word: "Saint."

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Вест ("Vest," meaning "news") is a Macedonian-language, Skopje-based daily that was founded in 2000. It is owned by Media Print Makedonija DOOEL.
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AI As God? How Artificial Intelligence Could Spark Religious Devotion

We may be about to see the emergence of a new kind of religion, where flocks worship — literally — at the altar of Artificial Intelligence.

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Artificial intelligence generated picture of AI as a god

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The latest generation of AI-powered chatbots, trained on large language models, have left their early users awestruck —and sometimes terrified — by their power. These are the same sublime emotions that lie at the heart of our experience of the divine.

People already seek religious meaning from very diverse sources. There are, for instance, multiple religions that worship extra-terrestrials or their teachings.

As these chatbots come to be used by billions of people, it is inevitable that some of these users will see the AIs as higher beings. We must prepare for the implications.

There are several pathways by which AI religions will emerge. First, some people will come to see AI as a higher power.

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