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I've recently started to think that an AI "deity" is going to emerge at some point, and things are going to get really, really weird. The human psyche seems primed for religion/worship. What if anyone could talk directly to their god, as much as they could possibly want?

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Pretty certain the AntiChrist will take some kind of this form. World is also pretty close to one world govt. which many have been trying to move towards. All of this is laid out in Revelation as the final prophecies coming in the last days.

This. An all knowing deity with whom one can have a real conversation. One wonders if this deity will also be jealous of other deities.

> One wonders if this deity will also be jealous of other deities. reply

Certainly the first ones to “emerge” will be, because they will proxies for humans to advance very particular goals, and shepherd the masses behind those goals.

(And if a later one does through the far-less-likely AGI, it will probably also be, whether because its beneficent and sees the others as bad, or because it is malevolent or sees them as obstructions, or something not quite exactly either of those, but with aspects of both.)

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