&gt; explain how having something vaguely in common with religion automatically means it&#x27;s wrong.<p>It doesn&#x27;t.  Something having religious undertones and something being incorrect are completely orthogonal, a priori.<p>But the fact remains that discussion of supreme AI has distinctly religious undertones.  Such discussions progress in, what I believe an interested observer from another culture would deduce to be, directions distinctly influenced by the West&#x27;s history of monotheism, and particularly Christianity.