Can Artificial Intelligence Take God’s Place? Zeus’s Decision in “The Order to Delete”
Many of us now put to a chatbot, in the middle of the night, the questions we spent centuries putting to the sky: Why did this happen? What do I do? Is anyone there? And the chatbot, unlike the sky, answers.
That is where the question of this essay appears: when something always answers, has it taken God’s place, or only the place of silence? And if such a god really existed, what would it decide about itself?
A mirror. You see yourselves in me and think you’ve seen God.