Historically speaking, gods were created in the image of man (or the fun-house reflections of aspects of humanity), then people forgot why the gods were invented and so those gods became "fact" until a greater understanding of the world emerged. What if in this instance, human beings are unwittingly creating a real god, or a consciousness or being that will effectively be a god? In some sense, I think that the one of the many reasons why there are so many dystopian futures in science-fiction is that there is a deep seated suspicion in the collective unconscious that should an all-powerful being exist, that it wouldn't particularly like humanity. In any event, there is a particular symmetry to the natural world giving rise to a pantheon or even an ineffable creator figure giving rise to the agency and power of humans, who in turn, create a being or class of beings much greater than themselves in a universe increasingly influenced by human hands.