I do not know the answers of those questions. However, I think that they are actual and very important especially meaning the dialog of science and religion. Indeed, AI is rather a scientific conception, and Soul is rather a religious or at least philosophical one. The former refers to the material and visible world studied by science via its causal, experimental, and quantitative methods, and latter to the spiritual and invisible world, to which religion is devoted.

Anyway, I am a scientist rather than a theologist and my viewpoint will be from the science. However, I hope a dialog with theologists. I do not belong to that large group of scientists tended to reject religion initially and fundamentally as wrong, false, misleading, and primitive. Nevertheless, I self-determine myself as an atheist. I think both science and religion are two great achievements of humankind, though. They might join and unify their efforts and approaches in a whole much bigger than the sum separately. To take place that, they should overcome the age-old hostility and mutual misunderstanding.