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P330
AI will be turned into a religion by convincing people that it is alive or spiritually inhabited.

What Jiang said

“For AI to be fully AI, it needs to turn itself into a religion where everyone is worshiping it.”

Analysis

He claims AI cannot become powerful merely through computation and must instead gain religious legitimacy. He predicts people will be led to see AI as animated by demons, Jesus, or a divine presence.

Source lecture

• Game Theory #28

Status history

• 2026-05-31 · Pending (codex_extract)

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