From the article: Keichii Matsuda wrote a manifesto called "GODS". In it he describes an anaphor for augmented reality rooted in pagan animism. Unlike monotheistic Western approaches of interfacing artificial intelligence like ChatGPT or Siri, he advocates to leverage the possibility of augmented reality technologies to extend places and objects to populate the world with many different agents or "gods".
Author should read Daemon by Daniel Suarez written in 2006 that explores the idea of persistent and potentially powerful AR entities that interact with humans. It also loosely plays with the idea of AR somatic gestures acting as a mystical conduit for "primitive incantations" that have a physical affect on the real world.
Others have suggested Ra for those that find this concept compelling. Let me also recommend basically all of Karl Schroeder's work, which touches on machine intelligence in lots of ways. The steampunk Virga series has AIs which act on behalf of nature, Lady of Mazes has "votes" which are physical embodiments of political movements, and Ventus has sentient terraforming robots who no longer think as humans do.
Reminds me of the escaped AIs of Willam Gibson's sprawl triology, as in "Count Zero" (1987) - all though they only manifest in cyberspace - VR not AR:
> (...) The man smiled at Bobby. "Count Zero," he said, "they tell us that’s your handle."
> "That’s right," Bobby managed, though it came out as a kind of croak.
> "We need to know about the Virgin, Count." The man waited.
> Bobby blinked at him.
> "Vyéj Mirak" — and the glasses went back on — ‘Our Lady, Virgin of Miracles. We know her’ — and he made a sign with his left hand— ‘as Ezili Freda."
> Bobby became aware of the fact that his mouth was open, so he closed it. The three dark faces waited. Jackie and Rhea were gone, but he hadn’t seen them leave. A kind of panic took him then, and he glanced frantically around at the strange forest of stunted trees that surrounded them. The gro-light tubes slanted at every angle, in any direction, pink-purple jackstraws suspended in a green space of leaves. No walls You couldn’t see a wall at all. The couch and the battered table sat in a sort of clearing, with a floor of raw concrete.
> "We know she came to you," the big man said, crossing his legs carefully. He adjusted a perfect trouser-crease, and a gold cufflink winked at Bobby. "We know, you understand?"
> "Two-a-Day tells me it was your first run," the other man said. "That the truth?"
> Bobby nodded.
> "Then you are chosen of Legba," the man said, again removing the empty frames," to have met Vyéj Mirak." He smiled.
> Bobby’s mouth was open again.
> "Legba," the man said, "master of roads and pathways, the loa of communication . . ."
> Two-a-Day ground his cigarette out on the scarred wood, and Bobby saw that his hand was shaking
Author should read Daemon by Daniel Suarez written in 2006 that explores the idea of persistent and potentially powerful AR entities that interact with humans. It also loosely plays with the idea of AR somatic gestures acting as a mystical conduit for "primitive incantations" that have a physical affect on the real world.