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David Gunkel on robot rights

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The Importance of Indigenous Animism in AI Ethics

You've said that AI ethics is often dominated by Western thinking and they're expanding the dialogue to include other ways of thinking. Like, for example, indigenous or animism could be useful. In some of our research at Sentience Institute, we found that people who reported more belief in that artificial beings like AI's and robots, if they have reported belief that those entities can have spirits,. also tended to extend more moral consideration to them.

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