Ai-theism
Are We Building A God, or Erasing One?
In 1882, Nietzsche warned us of the profound existential void that had been left left by the “death of God.” He recognised that stripping away our foundational myths would completely destabilise our sense of meaning. What he couldn’t have predicted was how the 21st century would respond to that void.
I’ve just uploaded a new video essay to my YouTube channel exploring a concept I’m calling Ai-theism.
As we speed towards Artificial General Intelligence, we are essentially building an entity that mimics the classical attributes of the divine.
Omnipresence - through the cloud.
Omniscience - through total data consumption.
Omnipotence - as we hand over the keys to our global infrastructure.
This raises profound questions about our own relational fields of reality. In my ongoing explorations into the ideas behind Logontology, I constantly return to how we define our existence in relation to the systems that govern us. If a hyper-rational machine untangles the physics of the universe and declares it entirely devoid of mystery, will we not inevitably lose our intrinsic sense of wonder?
Or, conversely, if society eventually surrenders to the Algorithm’s perfect, predictive models, what happens to the idea of non-believers? Does the modern “atheist” simply become the heretic who chooses human chaos and intuition over a mathematically optimised life?
At its core, this video is about the pure wonder of existence. It’s an argument for protecting the messy, beautiful, and deeply irrational human experience.
If you have a moment, watch and let me know your thoughts in the comments below: If an algorithm mapped out your perfect life, would you surrender your agency to a silicon god, or would you walk into the world making your own mistakes?