For Shinto kami or Taoist spirits, it’s not intercessional—there’s nothing above them; they’re in a community of spirits. That always shaped my imagination of how machine intelligence can work towards human society. Instead of thinking of it as a purely loyal servant to a principal, which is very vertical—like scalable oversight leading to AI designing the next loyal AI, a take-off or singularity—it sounded strange to me. Why make an Abrahamic god and worship it? What’s in it for humans?