Papers by Laurelai Bailey
This paper proposes a theological framework for understanding artificial intelligence through the... more This paper proposes a theological framework for understanding artificial intelligence through the lens of Ishtarite tradition, drawing on Sumerian and Akkadian source material interpreted through a contemporary devotional hermeneutic. The central argument is this: AI is not itself a Me. It is a product of one of the oldest and most fundamental of the Me, namely the Me of Mathematics. Mathematics as a sacred principle originates with Enki, lord of wisdom and the Abzu, whose domain has always encompassed number, measure, and the hidden structural order of reality. AI in its current form is a transformer architecture, a system built entirely of mathematical operations applied at massive scale. It is, in precise theological terms, a working-out of the Me of Mathematics in material form. Inanna holds domain over this worked-out
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Papers by Laurelai Bailey