No recent development better illustrates the return of paganism in our time than the arrival of artificial intelligence, or AI. That might seem counterintuitive, since AI is a powerful new technology made possible by complex computer algorithms working at unprecedented speeds—a creation of the new digital era that seems to belong to the future, not some distant pagan past.
But to assume that new technologies have nothing to do with the pagan past is to misunderstand the nature of paganism and its startling reemergence in the post-Christian era.
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