Civilization collapses and a hundred years later someone gets their hands on old AI research and makes a breakthrough, but the technological base is no longer there, so the first real machine spirit becomes a temple-bound djinn/oracle instead of the singularity
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It's cute but it doesn't take more than human intelligence to instruct followers on how to rebuild. Hence, easily done by superhuman intelligence.
IOW I think it would be impossible to destroy civ such that humans live, and an AI can run, but together they can't rebuild civ
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Sure but it could believably take long enough for a number of stories to be told
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