Religion and the Android

• Published in: Zygon Vol. 59; no. 3; p. 717
• Main Author: Clocksin, William F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Open Library of Humanities 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Approximation; Artificial intelligence; Chatbots; Consciousness; Large language models; Personhood; Religion; Religious Robots: AI as Religious Subject and Object; Robots; Spirituality; robotics; relationality; personhood; artificial intelligence; computational sociology

Future developments in artificial intelligence may take the form of androids, humanlike robots that people accept as persons and equals in society. Such androids would not be designed to imitate humans but would make their own claim at nonhuman personhood through engagement in a variety of relations...