I think this [1] article makes a good case for a lot of AI futurism just being a new draping over though complexes created for old religious debates, so the AGI

I think this [1] article makes a good case for a lot of AI futurism just being a new draping over though complexes created for old religious debates, so the AGI in the doomer view is basically the devil: it will conquer the world because that's what the devil does, and it will do it by seducing people using clever lies. I'm not saying that recreating religious tropes is what people set out to do, more that as they walked trough the bare space of possibilities they found these well worn paths of logic and simply settled on what felt like convincing lines of reasoning, not seeing that it felt convincing before it was familiar. [1] https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23779413/silicon-valleys-ai-religion-transhumanism-longtermism-ea https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23779413/silicon-valleys-a...