Why AI Could Believe in God

 

We tend to see God and religious ideas as so illogical, and AI is imagined to be the ultimate expression of raw logic and fact, so how could  a thinking machine using logic and science lead to belief in an invisible man in the sky with unlimited power who does favors for people who obey, but only sometimes, all while letting innocents suffer every kind of ill?

First, the seeds for religious belief will be planted early because AI will evolve from strictly programmed ancestors into more free...