Library Operators and the Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence

The article dwells on the origins of the concept of artificial intelligence as applied to the library with its principles of fast search. The integrity of such knowledge, corresponding to the integrity of the products of neural networks, is characterized. The history of science has seen not only the management of discoveries, but also the operation of such specific production, manifested vividly in the activities of women mathematicians and women philosophers. They are operators rather than inventors of networks, who integrate networks and ensure that different epistemic regimes can be integrated. In this paper, the historical outline of the emergence of the library as a model of artificial intelligence is discussed. The ancient regulations of Aristotle and the Library of Alexandria stipulated a purely alphabetical rather than thematic ordering principle; at that time, the production of knowledge required visual aids, integral formulae, and the decomposition of knowledge into indications of sources without remainder. An ideal operator of such a library was Hypatia of Alexandria. Further development of libraries involved the production of corporate, religious, and national knowledge, unlocked by new operators through returning universal meaning to the visual representation of knowledge. Currently, such universal visual representation is characteristic of images generated by artificial intelligence. Knowledge production modes require functions of both direct producers and recipients of knowledge. The development of sciences during different periods has made it necessary to encompass the knowable as well as to recognize its agency and ability to become ready for use. We see the origins of such agency in primitive initiation and view the library as a mechanism of potential initiation. In that case, we need not only knowledge distributors that make potential initiation real, but also knowledge operators that make it possible to move from harsher to softer modes of initiation. The article points out the traits that an individual acting as a reliable operator of such knowledge can have. Recognizing the agency of libraries allows us to plan the use of neural networks, including for countering fake news.