Sounds like a test run for the Image of the Beast
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-would-jesus-do-heres-one-way-to-find-out/ktnhuvrcs
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-would-jesus-do-heres-one-way-to-find-out/ktnhuvrcs
Mr Leysen told the US media outlet the group hopes to one day build artificial general intelligence, which differs from generative AI technology like ChatGPT in that it can reason and act autonomously, not just generate new ideas based on existing material.
"In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence of sects devoted to the worship of artificial intelligence," Neil McArthur, a director at the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at Canada's University of Manitoba,
wrote for The Conversation
in March.
Professor McArthur believes there are a number of ways people could come to see AI as a higher power, including if it produces content that could be considered religious doctrine like providing answers to life's big questions.