When Whittaker Chambers abandoned atheistic communism for Christianity in the late 1930s, he told his wife that they were joining the losing side in what he viewed as a great spiritual struggle. Later, after the Hiss case, when Chambers wrote his magnificent autobiography Witness in the early 1950s, the preface of the book was in the form of a letter to his children in which he described the struggle between communism and Western civilization as a battle between those who believe that “Man” is the center of the universe and those who believe that God is the center of the universe. Communism, Chambers explained, is “man’s second oldest faith” whose “promise was whispered in the first days of Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’” Artificial Intelligence (AI) whispers the same promise as the Serpent made to Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. …

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