Tag: Priesthood
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The Return of the Oracle: Why AGI Invites a Priesthood—and How Not to Build One
In Alien (1979), only Dallas may query MOTHER. The crew waits outside the sanctum, dependent on his translation of what the ship’s computer reveals. The ritual is familiar: when societies encounter powerful, opaque systems, they summon intermediaries. The Pythia spoke; priests interpreted. Scripture existed; a Latin-literate clergy mediated. Early computing produced its own “computer priesthood”…