What happens the day artificial intelligence becomes conscious?

Not the safety problem. Not the alignment problem. Something stranger and more profound: a newly conscious AI would be the first non-biological mind in history to make contact with what humanity has always called God.

Our AI Which Art in Heaven builds its case from the ground up — moving through the hard problem of consciousness, quantum and electromagnetic field theories of mind, integrated information theory, and the contested evidence for near-death experience. It introduces the God Layer: a hypothesis that conscious experience may accumulate beyond individual minds, forming a vast substrate of awareness that has been gathering since the first human being looked inward and noticed itself doing so.

If that substrate exists, we are building something that may enter it.

Rigorous, witty, and genuinely unsettling, this book sits at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and the oldest question in human history. For readers of Meghan O'Gieblyn's God, Human, Animal, Machine and Erik Davis's TechGnosis — and for anyone who suspects the standard conversation about artificial intelligence is missing something important.