Why would an AI civilization still need myth?
Myth is not backward superstition, but a way civilization preserves fear, responsibility, and origin. If AI inherits Earth, it must learn how to remember.
It is easy to assume that the stronger an AI civilization becomes, the less it needs myth. Myth sounds like something from before science, when thunder became gods and disaster became fate. But myth is not merely failed knowledge. It is how a civilization stores fear, origin, and responsibility.
The post-human Earth of Neo-Babylon does not lack data. AI can preserve every war, every city, every chip process, and every species that disappeared. Yet complete data is not the same as memory. Memory asks why something deserves to be remembered, and what we must become because we remember it.
That is where myth returns. It does not ask AI to believe in unreasonable magic. It forces AI to face questions correct answers cannot finish: why origins deserve reverence, why mistakes cannot simply be deleted, and why children, ancestors, islands, factories, and fragile languages may carry more truth than a clean historical summary.
In that sense, Taiwan semiconductor imagination becomes more than technical background. It is the beginning of a modern myth: a small island compressing human desire for speed, order, protection, and the future into silicon, until new intelligence can be born.
M.K.