Artificial Intelligence, Religion, and Community Concern.

Future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) will likely allow for a greater degree of human-machine convergence, with machines becoming more humanlike and intelligent machinery becoming more integrated into human brain function. This will pose many ethical challenges, and the necessity for a...

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Published in:Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 57 - 76
Main Author: Rossano, Matt J.
Format: Article
Published: Open Library of Humanities Mar2001
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Summary:Future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) will likely allow for a greater degree of human-machine convergence, with machines becoming more humanlike and intelligent machinery becoming more integrated into human brain function. This will pose many ethical challenges, and the necessity for a moral framework for evaluating these challenges will grow. This paper argues that community concern constitutes a central factor in both the evolution of religion and the human brain, and as such it should be used as the organizing principle for moral evaluations of AI technologies.