And the Robot Asked "What do you say I am?" Can Artificial Intelligence Help Theologians and Scientists Understand Free Moral Agency?

dc.creator	Metzler, Theodore
dc.date	2000-01-01
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-21T19:53:18Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-21T19:53:18Z
dc.date.issued	2012-08-21
dc.identifier	http://digilib.bu.edu/journals/ojs/index.php/jfse/article/view/75
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2144/3969
dc.description	Concepts of human beings as free and morally responsible agents are shared culturally by scientists and Christian theologians. Accomiplishments of the "artificial intelligence" (AI) branch of computer science now suggest the possibility of an advanced robot mimicking behaviors associated with free and morally responsible agency. The author analyzes some specific features theology has expected of such agency, inquiring whether appropriate AI resources are available for incorporating the features in robots. Waiving questions of whether such extraordinary robots will be constructed, the analysis indicates that they could be, furnishing useful new scientific resources for understanding moral agency.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Boston Theological Institute
dc.relation	http://digilib.bu.edu/journals/ojs/index.php/jfse/article/view/75/75
dc.source	Journal of Faith and Science Exchange; Journal of Faith and Science Exchange, Vol. 4
dc.title	And the Robot Asked "What do you say I am?" Can Artificial Intelligence Help Theologians and Scientists Understand Free Moral Agency?
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion