is AI our new god?
There is a particular kind of unease that settles in when you watch a machine do something you once thought only a human mind could do. Maybe it was a chatbot writing a poem that made you pause. Maybe it was an AI diagnosing a tumor from a scan faster and more accurately than a radiologist. Maybe it was simply a moment, late at night, scrolling through headlines about "superintelligence," when the question crept in uninvited: what if we are building our own successors? This is not a silly question. It is not science fiction hysteria, and it is not something only tech billionaires and philosophers get to worry about. It is a question worth sitting with carefully, because the honest answer is more interesting — and more useful — than either the doomsday version or the dismissive one. So let's actually work through it: will AI overtake humans? Not "could a machine one day be smarter than us at some tasks" — that has already happened, decades ago, with a pocket ca...
