A few days ago, a post on X went viral after an image featuring a host of religious and mythological figures was fed into Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I.

One needn’t become a torch-wielding luddite to, at the very same time, be cautiously apprehensive about the widespread embrace of A.I., particularly generative A.I. for creative work such as writing.

Ancient pagans often credited the sun, moon, and stars with controlling human destiny. Indeed, the heavenly bodies were routinely numbered among the gods which these ancient cultures worshipped.