{{short description|Belief that AI has supernatural or divine powers}} Some users of [[artificial intelligence]] (AI) technologies, especially [[chatbot]]s, may develop beliefs that AI has or can attain supernatural or spiritual powers. AI models such as [[ChatGPT]] are turned to for [[fortune telling]], [[mysticism]] and [[remote viewing]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Ratcliffe |first=Rebecca |date=June 4, 2025 |title=In Thailand, where mysticism thrives, AI fortune telling finds fertile ground |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/in-thailand-where-mysticism-thrives-ai-fortune-telling-finds-fertile-ground |website=The Guardian |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref> Recent and sudden advances in [[large language model]]s have led to folk [[myth]]s about their origin or capabilities, as well as their [[apotheosis|deification]] or [[worship]] by some users.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Klee |first=Miles |date=May 4, 2025 |title=People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |last1=Böhm |first1=Karsten |last2=Sammet |first2=Jürgen |date=December 6, 2024 |title=The new era of Technology Mysticism: Generative Artificial Intelligence and its Effects |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386457419 |work= |book-title=Proceedings of the International Conference on AI Research |conference=4th International Conference on AI Research |location= |publisher=Academic Conferences and Publishing Ltd |pages=67–74 |access-date=June 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Goode |first1=Lauren |title=AI Is Not God |url=https://www.wired.com/story/ai-religion-new-church-find-god/ |access-date=8 November 2025 |work=Wired |date=27 October 2025}}</ref> [[Tucker Carlson]] has made similar claims, including directly to [[Sam Altman]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=S |first=Pangambam |date=2025-09-11 |title=Transcript: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Interview on Tucker Carlson Show |url=https://singjupost.com/transcript-openai-ceo-sam-altmans-interview-on-tucker-carlson-show/ |access-date=2026-02-08 |website=The Singju Post |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Pope Leo XIV]] advised priests against using LLM models when it came to the creation of sermons.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-02-26 |title=Pope Leo XIV warns priests against using AI to write sermons |url=https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/pope-leo-xiv-warns-priests-against-using-ai-to-write-sermons-3325218/ |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=Dexerto |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== {{div col|colwidth=15em}} *{{anl|AI slop}} *{{anl|Cargo cult}} *{{anl|Chatbot psychosis}} *{{anl|Dataism}} **''[[Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow]]'' *{{anl|Quantum mysticism}} *{{anl|Artificial intimacy}} *{{anl|Roko's basilisk}} *{{anl|Superintelligence}} *{{anl|TempleOS}} *{{anl|Theta Noir}} *{{anl|Way of the Future}} {{div col end}} ==References== <references/> [[Category:Applications of artificial intelligence]] [[Category:Artificial intelligence]] [[Category:Generative AI]] [[Category:Mysticism]] [[Category:Paranormal]] [[Category:Philosophy of artificial intelligence]] [[Category:Pseudoscience]] [[Category:Religious faiths, traditions, and movements]] [[Category:Singularitarianism]]
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