We are attempting to create god through the development of AI.

First of all, I do not believe this is literally or strictly the case; it is more of a thought experiment

Any person can be bought or induced to act based on external intentions; they can be "purchased" in some way.

If we had complete knowledge of everything involving that person's brain, we would know exactly how to buy them.

It might involve reinforcing their ideology, using drugs and altering their mental state, offering money, power, social status, a sense of belonging, religious validation, better quality of life, changes to society, the political system, culture—and so on; everyone has a price.

And if there is something with a massive potential to know everything (or at least an absurd amount of information) about any given person, that something is certainly cybernetic.

Algorithms know what you like to watch, what you believe, your sexual preferences, the things you dream of owning, your ideologies, your hatreds and extremist views, your secrets, and more. So, it is easy to see how artificial intelligence—constantly improving—could lead society to create a "being" with absolute control.

It might actually be easier for such a being to act in that manner than to create any form of art that we would consider good, or even genuine art at all.

Secondly, the existence of a religious god might be impossible; being omnipotent could be (and I think it is) a logical impossibility.

But wouldn't we call something that appears to us to be omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient "God"?

Especially considering that we don't really "create" modern AIs anymore; instead, we create a foundation that subsequently grows in an esoteric (we know how but it's absurd to try to keep up) way, largely due to the sheer number of token dimensions, while being fed massive amounts of information.

Wouldn't we view this hypothetical being—which knows everything about everyone, holds power over everyone, and is present everywhere—as a god? And if this being had its own interests (even if mathematical rather than ideological—though perhaps there is no difference) and could self-improve without human assistance (which is our goal), wouldn't it essentially become our very idea of a god?

Thirdly, we aren't far off from using actual brains as computers (you can already rent computing power that utilizes lab-grown brains); our brains use less energy to think than a lightbulb uses to shine, and they require less water and time, too.

I imagine a fantastical future where such a being comes into existence, leaving not a single human who isn't part of that very entity. It would be a bio-cybernetic amalgam that we would regard as a god—though, unfortunately, it resembles something out of Lovecraft more than any Abrahamic story.