MIT Press Reader/Source images: Adobe Stock Tech titans keep imbuing AI with spiritual significance. The question is whether they’re building a savior — or a world-eating leviathan. By: Shira Chess   In June 2003, a strange listing popped up on eBay. A man named Kevin Mannis listed an antique wooden wine cabinet that he claimed to have purchased in 2001 at an estate sale. Mannis warned that the box contained the remnants of a dybbuk, a malicious dislocated spirit who was trapped in the container by the grandmother of the original seller — a Holocaust survivor. Mannis was told not to … Continue reading A Demon in a Box? Unspooling the Dark Mythology of AI