This article focusses arguments on changes and continuities related to the emerge and use of Artificial Intelligence and broader Digitization in religious leadership and governance contexts. It explores the sense-making, roles, responsibilities, and risks faced by religious leaders and structures. It asks for the implications of Artificial Intelligence and automation for their work. Investigated processes on negotiating authority, agency, or decision making within religious organizations and groups get transparent. Ethical criteria play an important role, while the assumption of personal responsibility is desired but hardly seems to be a reality: The barriers that cause this get identified, at least initially by reflecting on the way religious beliefs, ethical dilemmas, theological concerns, and value commitments related to the adoption and operability of technology in religious contexts are articulated.