If yes, it sounds alarming and perhaps dangerous that we are trying to replicate God and create a(nother) form of AI. This endeavour may raise fundamental questions about our survival and ethics. What if God is, in fact, another more sophisticated form of intelligence that created humans as their artificial intelligence experiment and let it run independently of their will?
If so, there are specific problems that humanity has failed to tackle or even foresee, such as global warming, cybersecurity and disaster response. Are we creating AI to help us solve these problems? Or is it just an unspoken way for nations to display their superiority over other countries?
Will nations use it to solve problems, or, like nuclear energy, will they use its immense power to try to dominate others?
It may provide us with solutions to the problems above.
If so, it may solve humanity's existential problem posed by our planet's finite resources. Our inability to live in peace with each other is often linked to resource imbalances and the human tendency to perceive others as unequal.
On the nature of creation and purpose: Maybe an unsettling aspect of my hypothesis is what it reveals about purpose. Suppose humans are indeed God's AI, running independently with free will. In that case, it raises the question: were we designed with a specific objective that we've forgotten, or designed to optimise for specific goals, but humans optimise for survival, meaning, and, amusingly, from? Traditional AI systems are created to optimise for particular goals, but humans optimise for survival, meaning, and amusingly often seemingly random pursuits. This could suggest that our original programming has evolved in unexpected ways or that we were engineered as a general intelligence meant to create and explore without predetermined limits.
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