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(I’m gonna go ahead and say this one will be better to read in your browser than in an email. Clicking on the title of the piece at the top should get you there.)
“‘We are piloting an AI Virtual Engagement Officer, Maria, to help us discern how technology may support deeper connection and accompaniment,’ Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport [CT] said in a statement posted to the diocese’s dedicated webpage announcing the initiative earlier this month…Maria is the centerpiece of a pilot program the diocese has launched to enhance its development strategy – an AI-generated agent who will contact program participants to gauge their pastoral and charitable donation interests, and then connect them with flesh-and-blood diocesan staffers for further follow-up.”
-OSV News, 4/24/26
