Cosmologist Says AI and Alien Disclosure Both Function as Secular God Replacements

What was said

"I call these aliens of the gaps. It's a form of almost religious worship. Same is happening with AI, by the way. You see this worship, this power, these people involved. Worship in AI is creating a god in our image. Okay, so just what God did with us. Gods that we create in our image— it's one of the oldest stories of all time. Tower of Babel."

Keating argued that both the UFO disclosure movement and AI hype serve as modern substitutes for religious transcendence, filling the void left by declining faith. He drew parallels to the biblical Tower of Babel, suggesting humanity's impulse to compete with or replace God drives both phenomena, and warned that neither will deliver the existential answers believers seek.