We present four conceptual value-sensitive AI systems to examine how the presence of AI could influence praying experiences. Drawing on key values and practices associated with praying identified through a diary study, we designed AI systems intended to "assist" prayer practices. These designs were presented to participants through speculative design workbooks, serving as provocations to co-reflect on how the intervention of AI systems might shape their praying experiences. Our findings suggest that a sense of authenticity (or feeling a genuine connection to the divine) is a crucial value, while the presence of AI was often perceived as diminishing this authenticity, particularly when AI assumed too much agency in guiding praying practices. Based on our findings, we argue that AI system designs for deeply value-laden experiences should preserve users' agency in shaping their own experiences by maintaining interpretive openness, perhaps by leveraging AI's inexplicability as a resource for personal meaning-making or by recognizing non-use of AI as a legitimate design choice.

翻译：我们提出了四个概念性的价值敏感型AI系统，以探究AI的存在如何影响祷告体验。基于通过日记研究识别出的与祷告相关的核心价值与实践，我们设计了旨在“辅助”祷告实践的AI系统。这些设计通过推测性设计工作簿呈现给参与者，作为共同反思AI系统介入可能如何塑造其祷告体验的激发工具。研究结果表明，真实感（或与神性建立真诚连接的感觉）是一个关键价值，而AI的存在常被感知为削弱了这种真实感，尤其是当AI在引导祷告实践中承担过多能动性时。基于研究结果，我们认为，针对深度价值负载体验的AI系统设计应通过保持解释开放性来保留用户塑造自身体验的能动性——或许可借助AI的不可解释性作为个人意义创造的资源，或承认不使用AI是一个合法的设计选择。