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How Artificial Intelligence Is Becoming Our New God
From the Oracle of Delphi to a glowing screen at midnight: why we trust a machine like an authority.
About
Two and a half thousand years ago, if you wanted an answer to something beyond you, you climbed to Delphi and asked the Pythia. Today, you ask a screen, at night, alone in your room.
This audiobook isn't a history — it's a reflection. How trust is built in a voice that keeps being right, and how fragile that trust is; why some people will grow sharper while others simply outsource their thinking to it; what it means when governments consult algorithms instead of people; and where the line sits between a useful machine and something that starts to resemble a deity. No easy conclusions — the question stays open until the very end.
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Delphic oracle" and "Pythia."
- Stokes, J. M. et al. (2020). "A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery." Cell, 180(4), 688-702. (Discovery of halicin, MIT.)
- Google DeepMind. "AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe."
- Dietvorst, B. J., Simmons, J. P., & Massey, C. (2015). "Algorithm Aversion: People Erroneously Avoid Algorithms after Seeing Them Err." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(1), 114-126.
- Pew Research Center (2017). "The Changing Global Religious Landscape"; (2022) "How the U.S. Religious Landscape Could Change Over the Next 50 Years."
- Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Thirty Years' War."
- Wikipedia. "Diella (AI system)." (Albania's AI system for public procurement, September 2025.)
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