Several sci-fi series in recent years share a premise of artificial intelligence influencing human life, or even life on earth. The X-Files, The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica to name a few. One interesting aspect of BSG in particular is it depicts the religion of the human beings and their scriptures as quasi historical rememberings of the true history of their people. This is an allusion to the alt bible and I think specifically to Mormonism (which was the religion of the creators of the original series, which was a cryptic depiction of mormon religion {which is really another book of Enoch spin off}).
The idea that religions encoded a "true history", or are a reliable record of anything is suspect. Most of the big events of human pre-history are entirely missing from them. The last ice age, for example, is barely present at all--maybe in the Norse mythology. The transition from pastoral life to city life is barely alluded to in The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Mediterranean civilization mythology includes a bunch of parochial city-founding mythology propaganda, i.e. Rome's founding, and claims of divinity of its ruling clique.
It's really unlikely there was any advanced, forgotten civilization.
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