Man, Machine, and the Myth of Godhood AI 2027: Pass The Plate For Policy

A popular writeup was published yesterday: AI 2027. It’s a fun sci-fi take on the coming AI apocalypse. The end is near. There’s even an altar call at the end: Continueu with your capitalist ways and face robot destruction, or invite the government into your heart to experience utopian paradise. The choice is yours.

As always, one should be wary about that kool-aid they’re passing around.

Humanity builds. That’s what we do. From fire-hardened spears to stone temples to silicon chips—we’ve always made tools. It’s intrinsically human.

But there’s another pattern, just as ancient: the moment we build something powerful, we start to believe we’ve crossed the threshold into divinity.

We invented bricks and mortar—and built a tower to the heavens. We harnessed steam and steel—and dreamt that utopia was around the corner. Now we’ve trained large language models—and whisper that godhood is just a GPU cycle away.

A certain kind of mind sees a new invention and thinks it’s finally time to ascend the sides of the North.

It’s always the same story.

People assume building an AI superintelligence is just a slightly more advanced version of building a regular LLM. Same tools, more data, faster chips—what’s the difference?

The difference is everything.

Creating something smarter than you is not just a matter of scale. It’s not “more of the same.” It’s a categorical leap. People imagine we’re on the brink of destruction because they think we’re just one breakthrough away. But that assumption rests on a flawed analogy: that man making God is no different than God making man.

It’s not the same.

But if you’ve bought into the Darwinist narrative—that consciousness is computation and intelligence is just an emergent property of complexity—then sure, it makes sense. You’re forced to believe that we’re just one clever training run away from omniscience.

That story matters. Because it leads smart people to very dumb conclusions.

We’re not on the verge of creating God. We’re doing what we’ve always done: making sharper tools—and telling ourselves grander lies.

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