Y'know I thought that too, and even wrote a (I hope reasonably well
argued) piece on why people should not throw a religious mantle over
issues that can better be framed within rationalist secular ethics
[0]. But then I keep seeing more and more that scares me in people's
reactions to AI and what are clearly cult-like tendencies to submit
before the power of technology. The very conceit of "technological
determinism" [1] is already an abdication of reason. Check out
Techno-Theodicy, the relation between Silicon Valley, Cosmism and
transcendence, and the now old but very salient Andrew Kimbrell talk
on "Cold Evil" [2]. It always starts as " a stretch" and in the blink
of an eye it's "just accepted as the normal culture". I think it would
behove us well to at least recognise and address this.
