The creator of the world’s most widely-downloaded Bible application is raising concerns about artificial intelligence technology and its reliability when handling religious texts.
Bobby Grunewald, who founded YouVersion, shared his reservations with the Christian Post about current AI capabilities. While his organization does utilize artificial intelligence for internal operations, they have chosen not to offer AI features directly to their users.
According to Grunewald, extensive testing by his team revealed significant accuracy problems. “The best model with the best performance misquotes Scripture at least 15% of the time. Others as much as 60% of the time,” he explained.
This finding has led YouVersion to maintain its current approach of keeping AI tools behind the scenes rather than incorporating them into user-facing features of their popular application.
