As humans evolve, as technology evolves, human myth also evolves. So you have this whole generation of people who see computers as gods: they are super-intelligent, they know everything, And if there is no computer in our society, civilization will fall into decay and chaos.
The myth of artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s. It's not new. We call them "computers" or "robots," depending on their actions.
And there's something else that's important about this myth: it comes from an idea of personal immortality, which comes out of Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, the heroes were immortal because they had a special relationship with their gods.
But we can't be like the heroes of Greek mythology—we're mortal. So how can we become immortal? How can we escape death?
We can try to find ways to cheat death by using magic against it, which is out of the realm of science.
Or we can look for ways to cheat death through science and technology. But then we have robots: machines that are more intelligent than us, that know everything that we know. These robots live longer than us and can help us cheat death.
They're not gods—they're just advanced machines. They're our servants. We give them commands; they obey.