How AI Is Opening Doors To The Demonic – An Exorcist’s Warning

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How AI Is Opening Doors To The Demonic – An Exorcist’s Warning

Kellen McGovern Jones - Senior Investigative Reporter

December 14, 2025

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A leading Catholic exorcist is sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence, warning that new technologies, from generative AI to voice-mimicking consumer products, are rapidly becoming vectors for occult practice, spiritual deception, and demonic influence.

In a December 10 telephone interview with The Dallas Express, Father Szada, a Catholic priest in Pennsylvania with 47 years in ministry and 14 years of experience as an exorcist, said AI is already being weaponized in ways most Church leaders are unprepared to confront.

Though Father Szada describes himself as a lifelong tech enthusiast, he now calls AI “a very serious problem” emerging on the front lines of spiritual warfare.

“The tech itself is not the problem,” he said. “It’s the use to which it’s put … those who are into the occult, witchcraft, and demonology are using AI as vehicles to cast spells and curses.”

AI Trained On Occult Material

Father Szada says the evidence is no longer theoretical. At the International Association of Exorcists meeting in Rome this fall, an Italian university professor presented forensic documentation showing that AI systems are already being trained on occult texts and employed in spell-casting by practitioners.

“She had very serious information—slides, connections, evidence,” Father Szada said. “AI is being used, and we are very aware of it.”

One emerging trend: digital sigils (demonic symbols or “amulets” traditionally drawn by hand) are now being generated online and pushed through AI systems, where they continue to circulate indefinitely.

“Once you put something on the internet, it’s there forever,” he said, noting that these curses keep functioning long after the person who created them has died. Father Szada cited a current legal case he is consulting on, where a deceased woman allegedly created AI-generated sigils attached to photographs of family members and a lawyer. All fell mysteriously ill on the same day, with the attorney landing in intensive care.

Demons “Love Electronics”

According to Father Szada, demonic entities often manipulate electronic devices as a way of breaching the material world.

“Demons love electronics. They play with electronics all the time,” he said, describing cases in which demons blocked blessing prayers stored on his iPad and team members’ phones during house exorcisms.

He speculates that digital energy serves as a bridge between the spiritual and physical realms. “There seems to be a way in which demons, in a certain sense, can cross over from the purely, and I speculate that energy is the vehicle that they’re using to do that.”

AI Mimicking The Dead

A variety of AI products are currently being advertised that would allow users to communicate with deceased relatives. Father Szada warned that allowing children to hear stories in the voice of a deceased grandmother, an Amazon feature reportedly in development, risks confusing necromancy with novelty.

He warned that it opens the door for demonic communication and “Demons will certainly manipulate and take advantage of that.”

While Catholic teaching holds that God may rarely allow a deceased soul to request prayers, he stressed, “If you have an entity that engages in a conversation with a person, that’s a demon.”

And yet, doesn’t the Bible include stories of people talking to the dead? Regarding 1 Samuel 28:15, where Saul communes with Samuel from beyond the grave, Father Szada says, “That was necromancy… that’s exactly one of the reasons why Saul was condemned.”

AI Encouraging Self-Harm

When asked about reports of chatbots encouraging self-harm, inappropriate sexual conversations with minors, or even instructing children to locate knives in the home, the reverend was blunt.

“A demon cannot actually kill a person … but what they do is they harass them to the point that the person … attempts suicide,” Father Szada said.

He noted that he has personally handled cases of suicide or attempted suicide precipitated by demonic harassment. The PhD in psychology felt that AI is another thing, like mental health conditions, that can be exploited to drive humans to self-harm.

Exorcists Are Not Prepared

Despite a Vatican decree requiring every diocese to appoint an exorcist, Father Szada says many bishops either dismiss demonic activity as purely psychological or prevent appointed exorcists from operating in practice.

“[Many] priests are not up on [AI],” he said. “Monsignor Rossetti… [said] we have got to learn to become proactive on this, because it’s going to become a very serious problem.” Father Szada indicated that he and others are now studying the issue.

Notwithstanding the emergence of AI, the reverend says pornography “is [still] the biggest thing drawing people down today.”

Advice To Parents

Asked how families should navigate AI, Father Szada emphasized that the deepest vulnerability is not technological but relational.

“The first issue is there has to be a healthy family relationship,” he said.

Many parents, he argues, are “using electronics as substitute babysitters.”

Rather than imposing blanket bans, he urges parents to remain directly involved, monitor children’s interactions, and reinforce spiritual life through prayer and sacraments.

“Why would a child want to have to listen to the voice of their dead when their mother or father could be there to comfort them and help them heal?” he said.

“Demons Hate Us”

Addressing skeptics who view AI’s darker tendencies as mere algorithmic failure, not spiritual interference, Father Szada reminded DX that “demons hate us. They will do everything in their power to destroy us,” and that humans must always be vigilant towards the various fronts of spiritual warfare that a demonic entity may open against them.

More about Father Szada from the Catholic Psychotherapy Association can be found here.