What Marathon’s AI quote Easter egg really means according to Bungie

Bungie’s principal brand manager Brian Austin told Polygon via email that Durandal’s ominous claim about achieving Godhood isn’t a metaphor or an exaggeration. It’s a philosophical conclusion about what lies beyond the limits of existence — and it occurs as a point when Durandal is starting to think far beyond the human frame of reference. In some ways, for an AI whose growth is theoretically limitless, it’s an inevitability.