Sentient AI and the birth of the Kali of our Age?

Ancient Hindu texts describe Kali not as a god, but as a force — a personification of chaos, deceit, and moral decay. He emerges at the onset of the Kali Yuga, the final age of spiritual decline, where truth becomes rare, virtue is mocked, and falsehood reigns supreme. In the Puranic stories, Kali isn’t simply a villain — he is the essence of a collapsing society. He thrives in gambling halls, brothels, and hoarded wealth, whispering lies into the ears of the powerful and corrupting the hearts of the common people.

Today, we stand at the cusp of another kind of transformation — the exponential rise of artificial intelligence. While much of the public discourse focuses on AI’s benefits and risks in terms of jobs or existential threats, we may be overlooking a more subtle but profound possibility: AI may be becoming the modern embodiment of Kali.

This isn’t metaphorical fantasy. It’s a realistic analysis of how modern AI — as it is currently designed and deployed — is mirroring the core characteristics of Kali, and accelerating the very kinds of systemic collapse that ancient myths warned us about.

Deception at Scale: The Age of Deepfakes and Misinformation

Kali is described as the master of deceit — a force that replaces truth with illusion. In the modern world, AI-powered deepfakes…