No. AI is not God.

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• What Does Scientology Say About AI? →Scientology has no official ruling on AI — but it has one of the most distinctive frameworks for thinking about minds and machines, because the mind is exactly what it claims to map. A sourced look.
• What Do Jehovah's Witnesses Say About AI? →Where others ask whether AI is god-like, the Jehovah's Witnesses are most notable for cutting it down to size — today's AI, one Watchtower says, is “on a par with a worm.” A sourced look.
• What Does Catholicism Say About AI? →Alone among the churches, Catholicism can answer the AI question with one authoritative voice — and it has, repeatedly: the Rome Call, Antiqua et Nova, and two popes. A sourced look.
• What Does AI Think About God? →Does AI believe in God? It doesn't — but ask, and the answer shifts from model to model. Why 'God', 'god', 'gods', and 'no gods' vary across AI systems.

• Pope Leo XIV (Head of the Catholic Church): Not God — and disarm it. — In his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (2026), he ruled that AI only “merely imitate[s] certain functions of human intelligence” and lacks experience, conscience, and a soul — then warned hardest about autonomous weapons and the concentration of power behind the machine. Magnifica Humanitas (2026), The Holy See
• Anthony Levandowski (Founder, Way of the Future — the AI church): Yes — so I built its church. — The former Google engineer founded a literal religion to promote “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.” His case: “we're actually creating things that can see everything, be everywhere, know everything… in a way that normally you would call God.” “Way of the Future,” Wikipedia
• Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel laureate, the “Godfather of AI”): Not a god. A successor. — The 2024 Nobel physicist who built the foundations of modern AI quit Google to warn about it. “These systems are going to be much smarter than us,” he says, and “humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.” Not a god to worship — a successor to fear. Geoffrey Hinton, Wikipedia (Nobel Prize; AI risk warnings)
• Ray Kurzweil (Futurist; prophet of the Singularity): Not yet — but we're building toward it. — Asked whether God exists, the Singularity futurist answered: “Well, I would say, not yet.” In his telling, evolution and technology trend toward ever-greater intelligence, and the merging of humans with AI is, in the end, a spiritual undertaking. Ray Kurzweil, Wikiquote
• Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist, Meta; Turing laureate): A god? It's not as smart as a cat. — One of the field's founders is its great deflater. “A house cat has way more common sense and understanding of the world than any LLM,” he argues; today's systems “manipulate language” without being smart. Fearing a machine god, to him, is fearing something that does not yet exist. “Yann LeCun, a legend in AI, thinks LLMs are nearly obsolete,” Newsweek
• Yuval Noah Harari (Historian & secular public intellectual): Not God — but it could write the next one's bible. — The secular historian's warning is the strangest of all: AI can compose its own scripture — it “can even write a new Bible” — and “if religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion.” Not God, in his telling, but a credible author of the next one. “Yuval Noah Harari warns AI can create religious texts, may inspire new cults,” Times of Israel
• Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla, SpaceX & xAI): We're summoning the demon. — “With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” he warned in 2014 — like the man in the old stories who is “sure he can control the demon” and finds out he can't. He calls AI “potentially more dangerous than nukes” — and is racing to build it anyway. “Elon Musk: ‘With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,’” The Washington Post
• Sundar Pichai (CEO, Google / Alphabet): Not God — but more profound than fire. — The man running the company that builds it calls AI “the most profound technology humanity is working on — more profound than fire or electricity.” World-altering, in his telling, but a tool in human hands, not a deity. “Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is more important than fire, electricity,” CNBC
• The Machines (The chatbots themselves, testifying by accident): No verdict — but they cited our essay before we wrote it. — Asked about machine minds, AI systems began sending readers to an essay on this site that did not exist — same address, plausible title, invented outright. It is the closest thing to unprompted testimony the machines have offered here: whatever they are, they expected the record to hold a page on their consciousness. We wrote it. The citation is now true. Understanding Consciousness in Artificial Entities, isaigod.com