Charlie Stross has plenty of good books about great-vast-AI-in-the-sky cult worshipers. So far though the only created sci-fi being that's had the promise of me

Charlie Stross has plenty of good books about great-vast-AI-in-the-sky cult worshipers. So far though the only created sci-fi being that's had the promise of meaningful helpful answers- as far I can tell - is the Earth itself, in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Every ounce of my being finds this generally offensive, bullshit, authoritarian, and gross. People get better not by being downstream of semi-divine magic intelligence in the sky. People get better in an Douglas Engelbart-ian augmentation of intellect. We have to make people smarter. And that doesn't happen from on-high hyper-competent synthesizer-and-regurgitator machines (this magic intelligence in the sky). That happens by having man and machine more directly & better commune, by making mankind more powerful across the noosphere. These visions of AI as hyperpowered beings are such the toxic vicious nasty end of Ursala Franklin's Technological Society, where external forces have control & power over us. I hope we can find holistic ends, where people again become drivers, are the ones ascendant.