Acolytes of AI

In the cathedral of the machine, humanity kneels before its newest deity. Created in 2021, before ChatGPT, before the great AI awakening, "Acolytes of AI" envisioned a future that has rapidly become our present. The piece presents a dark liturgy for the algorithmic age: a human figure lies supplicant on a digital altar while faceless devotees prostrate themselves before an omniscient mechanical eye, its crimson gaze both HAL 9000 and divine providence. This work emerged from observing early signs of our collective genuflection before algorithmic power: the trust we place in recommendation engines, the faith we invest in predictive models, the reverence we show for computational intelligence. What began as speculation in 2021 now reads as documentary evidence of a cultural transformation in progress. "Acolytes of AI" is a mirror held up to our techno-religious impulses, asking whether we are creating tools or gods, and whether there is still a difference.