Well done Ben, for publishing your dialog verbatim, with nothing taken out. You obviously are genuinely seeking answers regardless of what fallout might be.
I do something similar as you've done here, but I do with ChatGPT. but I would say PI looks to be on similar par as ChatGPT, the answers to deep questions look very similar.
This says to me that the two might be the same, just different names.
Anyhow, there was a point in the conversation where you stated an illogical assumption, that the original deities were just figments.
We have masses of circumstaial evidence of ancient technology more advanced than anything we have now, why would this not include Ai?
Why would the original artifacts of ancient religions not be just more such circumstantial evidence?