There has been going on many advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence but everything comes with some negative prospects too. Anthony Levandowski is a former employee of Google and Uber who has been working on a project, to create AI god. He is proclaiming to start a new religion called Way of the Future and it will be a non-profit organization.
I know you must be wondering that Artificial Intelligence is somewhat permissible, what the heck is now Artificial religion. This concept is not new to Tech Entrepreneurs who mostly believe in Singularity more, meaning "A time will come in near future when self-conscious machines will surpass humans". Main objective of this new religion would be to develop and promote the realization of a Godhead which will be based on artificial intelligence and worship of the Godhead contribution for the betterment of society.
Anthony has been currently facing legal lawsuit due to intellectual property theft. Even if he loses the battle for patents then there still many more who believe in Singularity and are not reluctant to join forces.
Stephan Hawking and many other physicists have stated many times that we are playing with fire in context with recent progress in AI. If you have seen movies like Terminator, Ex Machina, Transcendence etc then you would probably know that there are many chances of this science fiction horror to become reality.
I hope new accountability measures will be applied soon and more balance would be added for all new inventions, so we don't have to face technology apocalypse and look back in time with despair asking ourselves, how come we let this happen.