What is the current state of machine intelligence? How is our society is changing as we hand over more and more of our decision making to artificial intelligence (AI)? Drawing on ethnographic work on the entanglements of religion and AI, this talk will explore our dreams of AI and how our visions of AI superintelligence have led us to see ourselves as “all watched over by machines of loving grace”, as in the 1967 poem by Richard Brautigan. Illustrated with examples from science fiction, popular culture, memes and real-world robots, this talk will open up the larger questions that people have about the future of the world in the light of AI while trying to avoid the extremes of utopianism and dystopianism that can obscure the reality of a world increasingly held together by artificial intelligence.