I don&#x27;t think this is as much about AI as it may seem. I mean, yes, it&#x27;s about AI. But what it&#x27;s really about is a human tendency which is to create things and meaning when we don&#x27;t necessarily have the evidence of them.<p>What this is really about is religion. More specifically, we have people who are the most non-religious group out there (like scientists) and they dismiss formal religion only to recreate another version of it:<p>&quot;A core of technically proficient, digitally-minded people reject traditional religions and superstitions. They set out to come up with a better, more scientific framework. But then they re-create versions of those old religious superstitions!&quot;<p>And I see this more often than just in computer science. It happens all the time in economics.