Artificial intelligence is usually sold in extremes: miracle or apocalypse. Inferior God Complex is about what happens in between.
AI's most consequential power will not come from becoming conscious. It will come from becoming ordinary: embedded in hiring, insurance, medicine, education, policing, and every workflow that can hide a decision inside a form.
Drawing on mythology, bureaucracy, technology, and history, B.P. Christian argues that AI is neither oracle nor demon. It is a mirror-trained on human brilliance, bias, fear, and ambition, then installed inside institutions that turn prediction into procedure and procedure into policy.
The danger is not that machines become gods. It is that humans play god badly, surrender judgment, and call the result efficiency.
Wry, unsettling, and grounded in the systems already running our lives, Inferior God Complex explores the morality of the middle: the quiet places where technology becomes power, and where stewardship, accountability, and human judgment still matter.