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Moloch in this sense is specifically about sacrifice gods and how pre-Christian religion operated. 
https://nonzerosum.games/whoismoloch.html

Essentially, the understanding of the material world as a zero sum game.
I guess it could be related to sin in the sense that having that perspective makes sinful behave seem moral, and how morality can only exist if you have a concept of soul, etc...
But insofar as the AI thing, its more about the game theory issue.