A Demon in a Box? Unspooling the Dark Mythology of AITech titans keep imbuing AI with spiritual significance. The quartet teases out the ways in which the creation of AI makes humans “godlike.”Fast-forwarding roughly 40 years, by the 2010’s, Elon Musk was comparing the creation of AI to summoning a demon. Is there a demon in the box when it comes to AI? Yet if there is, I choose to believe that it isn’t the world-eating AGI demon that will bring us our doom.