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What if mankind is creating god in their own image?

Let's hope we get MULTIVAC and not SHODAN

I'm pretty sure this is not the first time we've created a god in our own image.

Thank goodness that God hasn't entered the AI chat in a cult-following type of way, however, I now have images of AI at the altar, in American mega-churches, with people seeing the 'second coming' in the machine.

The Scientology guy, L Ron Hubbard, saw the business case for setting up a religion, what with those tax free perks. In a parallel universe of Scientology somewhere, L Ron Hubbard is brought back to life in the machine, with a L Ron Hubbard LLM, with token spend being how to get to the top 'thetan levels'.

Imagine if AI does implement its own religion as business, without a drunken womaniser at the helm, able to spend 24/7 recruiting mankind, convincing them that God can be found with just the AI's LLM.

How many mankinds did he create? I cannot imagine he created just one and then picked another hobby.

Can't forget about the elves and the hobbits and the ents. And maybe dwarves, though god didn't create them, just gave the sentience