I just watched a video of Clone's Torso 2 on X. It is abundantly clear we are making robots in our image.

Their form factor mirrors our own - bipedal stance, articulated limbs, head positioned atop shoulders. This is not merely due to aesthetic choice, but because our entire built environment is optimized for the human form. Our buildings, factories, vehicles, and tools were all designed BUFU - by us for us.

Yet, subconsciously, in creating these mechanical versions of ourselves, and then embedding them with AI, we are acting out an ancient pattern - we are trying to ascend to the role of God ourselves.

In Genesis 1:26, God said “Let us make a human in our image, by our likeness, to hold sway over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the heavens and the cattle and the wild beasts and all the crawling things that crawl upon the earth.”

Our advancements in robotics mirror this divine saying. However, God immediately pairs creation with purpose - humans were created with a clear directive to exercise dominion over other creatures (God gives other directives and purpose later as well).

Yet as we create robots in our image today, their purpose remains more ambiguous. It appears partly that they are meant to assume our own original mandate - to take over our physical labor.

We're not just creating servants but successors.

I'm going to write another post about how this parallel extends further. In Genesis, the creation of humanity happens in two phases: first, the creation of the physical form, accompanied by this directive of physical dominion, and later the breathing of divine spirit into that form creating a "living creature" - the spark that granted consciousness, wisdom, and the capacity for moral choice.

We're mirroring this process: first engineering the mechanical bodies of robots (in our image), then working to embed them with AI.

We are following the same pattern: form first, then essence.