Artificial sociability: from embodied AI toward new understandings of personhood

Journal/Book: Technol Soc. 1999; 21: the Boulevard Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford Ox5 1GB, England. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd. 373-386.

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) research projects undertaken with new theories of embodied intelligence and humanoid robots are examined from the perspective not of their impacts on society, but in terms of the ethical and theological implications of their basic assumptions. By way of background, ideas about humanoid robot research in Japan are compared with related Jewish and Christian ideas. Basic descriptions of the MIT projects known as Cog and Kismet are then provided. Description then leads to general and personal analyses of the new spiritual understandings of personhood and sociability that may emerge from interaction with these new technological creations.

Note: Article Foerst A, MIT, Artificial Intelligence Lab, 545 Technol SQ, NE 43-812, Cambridge,MA 02139 USA

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