god in the machine

And it’s important for people to not treat chatbots “as some sort of God in the machine, to understand that it’s just a technology like any other,” Linvill said.

We’ve been the god in the machine all along.

And yet we continue to dream that some deus in machina, a god in the machine, could appear as if by magic to save us from ourselves.

Myth, if any, had to be subject to rigorous updates, and there was obviously no god in the machine.

“Deus ex machina” is the term for the “god in the machine” that sometimes descended to impose an ending on Greek plays.