| Different religions is potentially interesting; though now I'm also wondering if this is cultural "God salience" or serious "God salience" (the way the British do Easter and Christmas even though mostly not taking it seriously). - """Studies 3 and 4 demonstrate that the reduced reliance on humans is driven by a heightened feeling of smallness when God is salient""" I'd expect this to be less true for pantheons. """followed by a recognition of human fallibility.""" In pantheons, I'd expect this to vary by the nature of the god/goddess in question; Greek revivalism probably has different answers when considering Athena vs. Dionysus. """Study 5 addresses the similarity in mysteriousness between God and AI as an alternative, but unsupported, explanation.""" Yeah, that feels plausible. "X and Y are mysterious, perhaps they're the same?" seems common for any {X, Y} — AI, consciousness, quantum mechanics, god, evolution, prime numbers, art, … |