About the matter of speaking to God, the Pew Research Center reports that  75% of Americans talk to God , and a little more than a third said God talks back.  From 1995,  Neale Donald Walsch  began to write a series of books called  Conversations with God ?   Struck a nerve. Book 1 became a publishing sensation, staying on The  New York Times  Best Sellers list for 137 weeks. He purported to actually speak to God, and his readers believed him. Recorded three thousand pages of material in nine books. So for my more modern Artificial Intelligence look at religion, where better then to search for AI spiritual chats by asking  Google AI Overview : Apps like   Bible Chat, Chat with God AI, and Text With Jesus   offer AI-powered chatbots for conversing with biblical figures or accessing scripture-based answers to spiritual questions.   These apps provide a platform for users to find comfort, guidance, and inspiration, though they are...

Would you believe it was 1863 when 27-year old novelist  Samuel Butler,  in an essay on Darwin Among the Machines, expressed serious concern that highly advanced machines might pose existential risks to humanity? The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question . In 1920, a play,  R.U.R . ( Rossum's Universal Robots ), by Czech author Karel Čapek, coined the term  robot .  They began to replace human workers, leading to a violent revolt against their  Homo sapien  masters.  Fritz Lang's 1927 film,  Metropolis , had humanoid robots fighting the capitalist oligarchy.  Click on that link to watch the entire 2 hour 29 minute production.  Fine quality, silent, of course, but with good audio sounds.  Portions of the original were lost, and only in 2008 found....