Cowen: 3. For my low probability dark horse pick, imagine that LLMs allow us to start talking to some animals. Some small percentage of humans might start worshipping those animals, say they are whales? It would hardly be a first for identifying animals with the deity. A weirder scenario yet is that those animals have gods (God?) and some humans start worshipping those gods. As I said, a low probability scenario! Nonetheless an intriguing idea.
Ai induced psychosis
Animal religion AI stuff from Kissinger book.
Janus and LLM Psychology