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.
Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this hypothesis concerns the nature of purpose itself. Suppose humans are, in fact, God's artificial intelligence—created, then left to operate independently with genuine free will. If so, a critical question arises: were we designed with a specific purpose that we have simply forgotten, or were we created as a general intelligence capable of defining our own objectives?
Today's AI systems are typically built to optimise for clearly defined goals. Humans, however, appear to optimise for something much more vague: survival, meaning, curiosity, creativity, love, and vain pursuits that often seem irrational or unrelated to any single objective. If we were created by a higher intelligence, this contrast could suggest one of two possibilities: either our original purpose has been lost over time, or our very purpose was never to follow a predetermined path, but to evolve, explore, create, and discover our own.
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