1. 머리말

2. AI와 결부된 신화장치 개념의 재고

3. AI-종교적 실천과 기계 초월성의 신화

4. 맺음말

 This study conceptualized generative artificial intelligence (AI) not as a technical tool or product of industrial innovation, but as a mythological apparatus that produces and naturalizes effects of meaning, authority, and normativity in contemporary society. Leveraging Roland Barthes' theory of myth and Michel Foucault's concept of the apparatus (dispositif), myth was reconceptualized as aprocedural configuration in which signs, technologies, institutions, and user practices intersect. Accordingly, generative AI was conceived as a dynamic apparatus that naturalizes particular regimes of judgment and modes of perspectives using data flows, probabilistic computation, and interface interaction. 

 This study examined this mythological operation over three dimensions. First, large language models, which have black-box characteristics, were used to generate a "technological sublime," which transforms computational opacity into an effect of authority. Second, AI was used as a spiritual interface that reorganizes religious mediation and ritual practices in digital environments. Third, an AI-generated language, which is characterized by the absence of a determinate speaking subject, was used to produce an effect of objectivity and enable "double subjectivation," in which users delegate judgment to algorithmic systems while internalizing their authority. Accordingly, this study offers an analytical framework for understanding reconfiguration of contemporary cognitive structures using generative AI and the conditions for meaning formation.