Is Alan anyone note worthy, or is he just a random moron?

No clue. Checkmarks mean fuck all on that platform.

Professor of Religion at James Madison University, published in a few journals and had an article in Wired about Go (the board game) ten-ish years ago.

So is he just joking, or very stupid?

I read it as a joke, and a good one, in my opinion. He’s asking a supposedly thinking machine to explain a passage about thinking machines being used to enslave people.