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ENGLISH 8-9A

ARTIFICIAL

FAITH

WRITTEN BY

ANDRE NATHANIEL LIMIN

It was the year 2050, and a super country
emerged, called Wongots. Not only was it the
richest country with the best military in the
world, but it was also the country that every
other nation in the world depended on.
Wongots, a country rich in both natural
resources and human resources, provided lots
of resources that other countries relied on to
work, such as oil, technology, produce, and
many more. However, it wasn’t enough for
Wongos, Wongots’ leader. And with the
dependence of other countries to Wongots,
Wongos came up with a new plan to exploit it.

As the first country to invent an Artificial
Intelligence (AI) technology, Wongos wanted
to use the AI to exploit other countries.
Wongos’ plan was to make a new global
religion. So, Wongos launched the first AI-
based religion named Sognow. The AI was so
intelligent that people thought it was the gods
that created the religion. It talked about human
values, morality, and more things that a normal
AI wouldn’t be able to generate.

Because of how believable the AI was, some
people already started to believe in the religion.
But for Wongos, it wasn’t enough money and
control.

Wongos set up a meeting with all the higher
ups of the government to discuss this religion.
“How can we use this new religion to make
more money?” Wongos asked.
“How about we force our allies to use our
religion? And if they don’t want to, then we
stop helping them.” asked one of the prime
ministers.
“You are immediately promoted to be a vice
president, that is GENIUS.” said Wongos.

Soon, Wongos made the announcement to the
world about the religion. And overnight, the
world became chaotic. As religion is a sensitive
thing for a lot of people and Wongots had the
power to influence the world, this
announcement offended a massive group of
people around the world. Protests popping up
from every corner of the globe.

“We want freedom of religion!” chanted by the
protesters all over the world.

But, even with the protests, some countries
desperately agreed with Wongos’ deal. The
cost of losing the resources from the country of
Wongots was too much to give up. For the
leaders of the countries, resources from
Wongots are way more important than religious
freedom. This of course, caused even more
protests among the people.

On the other hand, some countries disagreed
with the agreement. Although this stopped the
protests, the country became extremely poor
compared to the other countries. With the
blockade of trading with Wongots, the
countries lost their source of income and
resources. Because of this, supply of things like
livestock and plantation became very low, sky
rocketing the price of goods.

Now, not only was Wongos even richer than
before, he had way more control over the world

with his new religion.
“Vice president, what should I do now with
this new religion?” asked Wongos.
“You know what, let’s make them suffer.”

In 2050, a super power country,
Wongots, had total control over the
world. It was the country that every
other country depended on. But for its
leader, it wasn't enough. He wanted
more money and control over the
world. So, he made an AI that makes a
religion. The thing is, the leader made
it so that other countries have to follow
the religion or not they wouldn't get
anymore help from Wongots. Now,
what will happen to the world? Will
countries follow the religion or not?