As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to accelerate in speed and scale, more tech leaders from diverse backgrounds are increasingly using religious and even theological language to describe an entity that, some say, doesn't actually exist yet.

Industry leaders from Elon Musk to Sam Altman have spoken repeatedly about the potentially transformative changes they're expecting over the next decade as AI is set to both create and eliminate millions of jobs worldwide.

From dire warnings about AI giving birth to "new religions" to cult-like movements that worship ChatGPT, the languages of technology and theology are intersecting in ways many could not have foreseen just a few years ago.

Here's what tech industry leaders and thinkers are saying about what the not-too-distant future might hold for AI and humanity.

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Elon Musk – Founder of Tesla and SpaceX

Over two years ago  — light years in terms of AI development — Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk revealed that Google co-founder Larry Page once told him he hoped to build an AI super-intelligence that Musk described as a “digital god.”

Musk said the exchange occurred when he stayed at Page’s home in Palo Alto, California, when the two were “close friends.”

“I would talk to him late into the night about AI safety, and at least my perception was that Larry was not taking AI safety seriously enough,” Musk said, adding that Page wanted a “digital super-intelligence, basically a digital god, if you will, as soon as possible.”