Artificial intelligence is usually sold as either miracle or apocalypse. This book is about what happens in between.
The Inferior God Complex argues that the real power of AI will not arrive first as superintelligence, killer robots, or cinematic gods. It will arrive as paperwork. As forms. As risk scores. As workflows. As software quietly embedded in hiring, insurance, medicine, education, policing, government, and ordinary life.
Once, churches became centers of truth because they controlled literacy, records, archives, and bureaucracy. Today, data is becoming the new secular scripture, and AI is becoming its clerk.
This is not a book about whether machines will become gods. It is about what happens when flawed human systems build tools in their own image, then hand those tools the power to sort, rank, approve, deny, remember, and forget.
Urgent, readable, and darkly funny, The Inferior God Complex is a warning about the boring places where power hides.