An Ex-Google Engineer Is Founding a Religion to Worship AI. He's Decades Too Late. - ExtremeTech

Science fiction of the time period, however, still expressed considerable unease about various aspects of technology. While some characters, like Isaac Asimov's R. Daneel Olivaw, were portrayed positively, the original Star Trek featured androids or computers as primary or secondary antagonists in 16 percent of its episodes (13 episodes total). Perhaps more significantly, only one episode portrayed a sentient (or sentience-mimicking) machine in a neutral light: "The City on the Edge of Forever." In every other case, androids, robots, and advanced computer systems were depicted as adversaries. I drew a fairly narrow line for this comparison and did not include instances where technology had malfunctioned or created a problem.