The apotheosis of a machine as the restarting point of a cyclical time-loop, it must have astonished the audience especially at the time. To the best of my finite reckoning, it boils down to a pantheistic/monistic model because either the materium is eternal fundamental base reality where the [man -> machine -> god-> man] cycle plays, or there's a monad god of some sort which gave rise to the cycle, and AC/Multi-vac is a lion-snake eating its own tail, a combination of the Demiurge and Oroboros.
It's potentially also Roko's Basilisk, because if the eternally looping machine knew you are aware of it, and you tried to break the time-cycle to prevent the re-creation of itself and everything (samsara?), you could end up being punished in an endless eternal while(1){existence;}. Maybe in that sense it's like the Tenma of the sixth heaven getting in the way of those seeking to break from that cycle, but I know less about this.
In spite of these links to a deeply cyclical creation, life and existence, it starts the end speaking the words of a deity usually strongly held to have a through-and-through YOLO creation (miraculous resurrections notwithstanding).