Confusing Religion and Technology

“Religion and AI Converge on Mazlow’s Hammer”, AI art by Marcel Gagné.

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” — Abraham Maslow

There’s this idea that’s been floated in several places, and not just the article that really got really got me back on this train of thought (I’ll get to it in a moment). Here’s the idea: somehow, all this obsession with AI development, with technology in general, and of course, the idea that technology will somehow make our…