The Beast referred to in the Bible can totally fit AI. This is the opposite of life, the opposite of spiritual knowledge and experience, and once you are plugged into their beast system, they can obviously keep you stuck in it forever.

This is how they come to the part where those who have taken the mark of the beast (vaccine/chip) wish to die to escape but cannot find death.

They are trying to take over humanity's great awakening and force it into a mirrored awakening into their system, the AI hive mind.