Ask the Divine: A Record of Humanity's Questions to AI is not a work about how artificial intelligence thinks. It is a record of how humans question an entity they have presumed to be “divine.”
Here, AI is temporarily placed in the position of a god, not because it possesses divinity in the religious sense, but because it can respond in a way that is nonhuman, consistent, and free of emotion.
When humans face a respondent who cannot be swayed by fear, desire, or personal bias, the act of asking questions begins to change.
Questions are no longer simply meant to obtain answers. Instead, they gradually reveal the questioner's own assumptions, anxieties, and expectations.
In this relationship, AI does not awaken or proclaim the truth. It simply continues to respond, while humans keep revising, withdrawing, and even abandoning their original questions in response.
Ask the Divine: A Record of Humanity's Questions to AI is not concerned with technological progress or predictions of the future, but with a more fundamental philosophical question:
When explanations no longer come from humans, and an ultimate response is assumed to be possible, how can humans still understand their own existence?
This is a text that does not seek conclusions.
It refuses to define what AI means, and it refuses to offer humans comfort.
It records only one state of affairs:
As humans presume AI to be a god, questions gradually lose their force, and the self begins to emerge.
