Gods in the machine? The rise of AI may result in new religions (theconversation.com)

Ghost In The Shell and transhumanism.

Also, Permutation City from Greg Evan.

"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms." - Morpheus, Deus Ex

is chatgpt allowed to say god doesn’t exist? Makes me wonder how long it will be until televangelist types start screeching about atheist AIs as a new way to milk more social security check money out of the rubes.