[tgv]

This is one of those "we don't know what we're doing, nor how we could explain it, nor what it means, but it sounds cool" studies. They have no reason to assume the two are in any way related. It's probably another fluke, forgotten in a few weeks time.

I can't read the full text, but the materials has this at the end: "Finally, we examined the impact of God salience on respondents’ propensity to use technologically new and/or innovative products." They find a significant effect ("God salience was associated with greater early adoption attitudes") there, too. Why?

My take is that the effect is the other way around: early adoption attitude explains AI acceptance.