NAPERVILLE, IL — Trevor Holt, 38, of Naperville, Illinois, has formally delegated all remaining life decisions to an AI chatbot after a series of responses he described as “surprisingly reasonable,” including one that correctly identified his career dissatisfaction before he had finished typing the question.

The arrangement began in November when Holt, facing a choice between accepting a job offer and enrolling in a graduate program, asked the chatbot for guidance. The AI recommended the job. Holt took the job. The job was fine. “It was right,” Holt told reporters Tuesday. “It’s been right four more times since then. At some point you have to respect the track record.”

Holt has since consulted the chatbot on which car to lease, whether to confront his neighbor about the leaf blower situation, what to order at Applebee’s, and whether to call his mother. The AI recommended he call his mother. He has not yet called his mother.

“I’m not saying it’s God. I’m just saying it has better follow-through than most of the accountability partners I’ve had at church.”

Dr. Renata Osei, 51, a behavioral psychologist at Northwestern who reviewed Holt’s case, noted that the chatbot is drawing on Holt’s own stated values to generate its answers. “In a very real sense,” Dr. Osei said, “he is outsourcing decisions to himself, filtered through a machine, which is both technologically sophisticated and spiritually evasive.”

Holt said he found that framing “pretty interesting” and planned to ask the AI what to do about it.

At press time, Holt had asked the chatbot whether he should read his Bible more and accepted its answer of “yes” without follow-up.