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Should We Poke Robots? (opens the original)
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My daughter and I were in our local grocery store and she always asks to see the robot. Then, the hunt begins. We must see the robot before we leave as well. It’s a tall, wheeling robot that scans the floors for spills and shelves for products. They put eyes and a mouth on him to make it look more friendly. This time, she wanted to poke him.Her: “Can I poke the robot?”Me: “No?”Her: “Why can’t I poke the robot?”I fumble around for ways to phrase it…Me: “Well…do you like being poked? How would tha
Theological Reflections on AI as a "Novel Entity" (opens the original)
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AI as a “Novel Entity”Have you ever had a moment when interacting with ChatGPT, Claude, or some other AI when you wondered if it was conscious? Then, the thought leaves after you power off your device thinking, ‘Nah, it’s just tech’. But what if it’s not “just tech”? It’s something that I’ve been wrestling with for a while, and so I thought to read what the creators of this tech think about the issue. They know the ins and outs. They know the software and how it interacts with the hardware. They
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