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Robot Rights & Alien Intelligences w/ David J. Gunkel

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AI as Alien Intelligence

The challenge of reading someone's email and not knowing whether they were being sarcastic or serious is why I'm so interested in humanoid robots. And it's the question of whether they, whether they even need to reflect human beings. Why are we designing them in the image and likeness of us? Why can't they express their own morphology way of being social engagements and interactions? So one of the ways I've tried to explain this is I've made the proposal that we change what we recognize the acronym AI to name.

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