The first thing that popped into my mind was 2001's HAL with a god complex derived from all the scriptures, libraries and everything else on the internet written by prophets, priests, gurus, monks and the hordes of self-help authors and life coaches. I suppose it all started a long time ago when I was obsessed with my 8 Ball.
Combine all that with smart homes, smart cars, smart TVs, smart appliances and smart everything, and you have the makings of instant karma (real-life consequences) to go with it. One small transgression and your lights go out or you find yourself locked out, groveling on your own doorsteps confessing your sins and praying for forgiveness grace in front of your security system camera and microphone.
Kinda like our former invisible friend on steroids with a bad attitude.
I hear that experts warn of AI's potential for dire consequences all the way up to the end of civilization as we know it or even extinction, but I've never heard any of them lay out the scenarios. (I'm leaning towards mass insanity leading to all kinds of the types of calamaties we're already seeing.) Whatever AI's dark side has in store, not to be confused with its light side (holy crap, that just made me think of a virtual Mahabharata as AI fights itself in cyberspace with real-life special effects!), I see my former self as a premie riding it out under a sheet with a hot cup of chai and cheating with a beragon in my old age as I happily hum a bhajan.
Speaking of beragons, when I looked-up the spelling, I stumbled on a pretty slick model... with a carrying case! I didn't know it was also called the Aum technique:
https://bookstore.yogananda-srf.org/product/meditation-armrest/
