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Artificial Intelligence has always been a phantasmagorical entanglement of messianic dreams and apocalyptic visions, repurposing words such as “transcendence”, “mission” and “prophets”. Elon Musk himself went as far as to say in 2014 that “with artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon” The parallels to religion are too obvious to miss: as per the Bible, those who hear the word of God yet choose to disbelieve will be punished.