Online Buddhist and Christian Responses to Artificial Intelligence

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ID7429635
AuthorsLaurence Tamatea (0000-0002-2151-6909, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume45
Issue4
Pages979-1002
Publication date2010-11-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueZygon® (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0591-2385 • E-ISSN: 1467-9744
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01145.x
OpenAlexW2137481573
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited9

I report the findings of a comparative analysis of online Christian and Buddhist responses to artificial intelligence. I review the Buddhist response and compare it with the Christian response outlined in an earlier essay (Tamatea 2008). The discussion seeks to answer two questions: Which approach to imago Dei informs the online Buddhist response to artificial intelligence? And to what extent does the preference for a particular approach emerge from a desire to construct the Self? The conclusion is that, like the Christian response, the Buddhist response is grounded not so much in the reality of AI as it is in the discursive constructions of AI made available through Buddhist cosmology, which (paradoxically), like the Christian response, are deployed in defense of the Self, despite claimed adherence to the notion of anatta , or non‐Self

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