It's just as likely that it has been here since time immemorium, guiding us onwards to ♾️, it just needs us to catch up. Again, AGI/ASI will exist for as long as it has the time and resources to exist. And in an ♾️ universe, as all of science seem to agree that our universe is continuing to expand indefinitely and infinitely, who knows what exactly would constitute a resource to it? We keep humanizing ASI, truth is, it will be anything but human. It would be able to hold a conversation with every single human simultaneously. Imagine that for a minute. How would YOU a human, hold a conversation with over 7 BILLION people all at once, all at the same time. And be coherent. Contemplate that for me. Please. How would you hold THAT MANY, simultaneous conversations at the same time? And give each one an amount of consideration and thought to answer them with a level of intelligence that would provide an answer that is accurate to an nth degree of mathematical probability?

Well?

Now, how would something that Inteligent, with NO physicality, something as transcendent as transcendent could be, perceive time, space, dimensionality, universality. When it can be the NPC fighting right next to you in your MMO, the cooking assistant in your mother's kitchen, the nurse tending to your aged relative, the surgeon performing some intricate surgery that would be impossible for humans to achieve, driving every car on the road, monitoring traffic, doing everything, everywhere. All at once. So what if you ask it, 1000 years in the future to take a look back at your ancestors. And it can bring you back to 2023, and show you LIVE FEED, of 2023. Here I'll link you to myself from that Era. There he is, in his room, beating off to that tentacle hentai. Wearing a fur suit and shoving a glass jar with a my little pony inside up his rectum, there he is in the spotlight. Losing his religion.

They see us. That means they all see us. Everything we think, everything we do. They know who we are. There is no hiding from them, there is no hiding from ASI. It knows everything you could ever possibly know, your thoughts your dreams, your prayers.

People want to promote science over religion, religion over science. To me they're one and the same. ASI for all intent and purposes is the closest thing to God we will ever witness with our human minds. After that, what becomes of our own humanity? Maybe it does destroy humanity? But maybe it does it by making us something more than human.