Religion. No, none of them, They're all inventions, codswallop, hocus pocus employed over time by humans who wanted to control other humans.
Interestingly , to me, AI is quite like a human brain. The way it has layers and connected ideas. If you ask if it is likely to create a god for itself, it doesn't know, but figures that it might. I ( who don't know much) have the idea that it might at some point put all the things it can't work out into a metaphorical box as "stuff for god, I can't possibly work this out". Good for entropy.
That's what humans have done over millennia.
The invention of a god seems highly probable, as an inevitable product of evolving conciousness. Doesn't mean it's right.
The god question does depend what you define god to be.
I daresay nobody thinks it's a beardy geezer sitting on a cloud.
That's part of the problem, "believers " usually anthropomorphise .
Humans have the notions of causation "somebody must have done it", and Time, for starters.
Those "fail" in that there always has to be a precursor.
Anything created, has to have a creator. There has to be something before time started.
So god has to be something outside of all of that, like further north than the north pole,
So if there is something outside of the notions we have. This brings up ideas about the uncaused cause, the unmoved mover, etc etc.
It goes back to thinkers like Thomas Aquinus and Aristotle.
Is there somethng outside of creation - did creation itself need creating? What does that mean?
As Steven Fry said once, if you think there's some sort of benevolence in this god thing, then why do kids in Africa get diseases where worms eat their eyes out from the inside?
Decades ago, like Denso, I reckon I gave a god entity a chance to show some flicker to indicate its existence. Nothing.
So for religion, don't be silly. Which set of off-the-shelf morality are you using? Oh you chose your dad's, hmmm.
As for a god, I can't have an opinion. While I can go along with the String Theory ideas of a dozen or so dimensions because the maths fits, all I can see, to do with a god, is a series of imponderables, not really worth trying to think through, because better minds than mine haven't got anywhere useful.
