It should also be noted that this marks the first episode since the pilot where a character doesn\u2019t open things with a monologue.<\/p>\n Having come up with no leads about Skinner for the umpteenth time<\/a>, Lazarus changes tactics again. They find an old article about how Skinner once visited this Neo-Luddite commune that worships this AI called Naga as a god. They think it\u2019s a good hiding place for Skinner, but since they can\u2019t hack into Naga, Elenia and Leland have to sneak in.<\/p>\n This cult worships an AI. Seeing as what\u2019s happening irl in the current year of 2025, yeah this would totally happen by 2052. #LAZARUS<\/a> #Toonami<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/uK4A27ZvRU<\/a><\/p>\n — Goldy-RiSA https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n The twist: this cult, Tower of the Truth, is where Elenia grew up before, perhaps wisely, running away. It gets even crazier, though, when it\u2019s revealed that Naga the AI was based on the brain patterns of Dr Skinner. And because they didn\u2019t know to leave well enough alone, the scientists at MIT that created Naga added in a desire for power and need for control.<\/p>\n Artificial intelligence has long been a staple of science fiction, but for every example of one that doesn\u2019t go nuts, there are multiple examples of Hal, Skynet, Ultron, and the Absolute Solver. With AI starting to get more and more powerful in recent years, there is a legitimate concern that they could go mad with power and destroy humanity. It\u2019s why the Three Laws of Robotics are a concept, and why people are urging AI not to be abused. And unfortunately for the Tower of the Truth, Naga\u2019s creators did the exact opposite by giving him a god complex. And in an effort to prove its own divinity, Naga plans to have the entire cult commit suicide by immolation. It\u2019s having them drink the Kool-Aid and go full Jonestown!<\/p>\n The entire episode is more or less a cautionary tale about two things: the dangers of unethical AI, and the dangers of living a life isolated from any outside information. While the Tower members aren\u2019t wrong about the world being filled with a lot of bad things, shutting themselves off from life means they don\u2019t understand why trying to commit mass suicide is a terrible idea. Then again, Skinner suckered most of humanity into drinking another kind of Kool-Aid in pill form, so\u2026<\/p>\n Fortunately for Elenia and Leland, they manage to convince one of her only friends in the cult to save them, and Lazarus is able to stop the drinking of Kool-Aid before most of them die. The only casualty is the leader of the cult, an Ex-MIT scientist who became obsessed with Naga in the first place. As for Naga, he survives, only to get told off for being nuts by Axel and likely destined for deactivation\/execution.<\/p>\n Things aren\u2019t a total loss, though. Lazarus managed to recover Naga\u2019s memory banks, so if the AI had any other contact with Skinner, they can find it. It\u2019s probably going to be another wild goose chase, but maybe we\u2019ll be surprised this time. At least we won\u2019t have to worry about the Kool-Aid anymore!<\/p>\n Preview for 'Lazarus' Episode 7! pic.twitter.com\/b9xXWa9enC<\/a><\/p>\n — Lazarus (@LazarusAnime) May 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAn AI Cult<\/h2>\n
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(@GoldyRiSA) May 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis is Why Need to Not Be Dumb With AI<\/h2>\n
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