AI is really the ultimate Idol, isn’t it? It is an effort to create a perfect intelligence in imitation of God.
I cannot say we are not hibernating octopuses on an unimaginably large space ship dreaming we are human, and controlled already by a computer, but it doesn’t feel that way, and we have nothing but our minds and spirits to go by. It is not bad policy to view all decisions about the nature of reality as provisional, but I think if A reliably leads to B, then some faith in that process is warranted, and that is in any event the only logical basis for moving forward. Confusion seems to be our natural condition, and it may never be cured fully.