That&#x27;s essentially the old &quot;<i>any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic</i>&quot; saying that was coined by Clarke back in the day.<p>The interesting part of this comes into play when we&#x27;re talking about a hypothetical super-advanced life form essentially posing as a supernatural being for the purpose of deceiving creatures of lesser means. It&#x27;s not <i>actually</i> supernatural activity though, because there are still natural laws governing the advanced being&#x27;s existence.<p>I would imagine, out there in the vast universe this kind of scam is probably taking place somewhere as we speak, and to those most likely unlucky subjects this distinction between &quot;actually supernatural&quot; and &quot;magic trick&quot; is probably entirely irrelevant.<p>It seems to me that over the course of known human culture, there have actually been several pantheons whose members could be considered non-supernatural in this sense. Essentially this is true whenever we&#x27;re talking about hero-type deities as opposed to creator-type deities. In principle creator-type deities are still compatible with a hypothetical simulation scenario in which they also choose to take part personally.<p>Needless to say though, we don&#x27;t appear to be living in such a universe. As far as we can tell, there is no global artificial god, and no artificial god who is local to us. But there might be many local ones elsewhere.