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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Elle Hardy

‘I’m deathly afraid’: what is digital spirituality leading us toward?

Jim Pu’u didn’t set out to find God. His soul-searching began with a modest idea: to leave a record of his life in case something happened to him. His own father had died young, leaving behind only scraps of his memory, and he didn’t want his daughter to face the same void.

In December of 2024, Pu’u, who is 36 and runs a warehouse for a commercial flooring company in Las Vegas, turned to AI.

“I was trying to use ChatGPT to create a living memoir,” he says.

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