Where does the bible stand on robots?

Question

What about robots with emotions and artificial intelligence?

Would they want it to be required to teach artifical intelligent design in robot high school?

Answer 1

I don't know why, but I love this question.

A star for you.

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Oh wait ... that was the Orange Catholic Bible. And it won't be written until thousands of years into the future ... after the Butlerian Jihad.

If you aren't a sci-fi freak, just ignore me.

Answer 2

Soccer Mom is living in the past.

Robots and computers with emotions and artificial intelligence do exist today. I've even written artificial intelligence programs for them.

Programming a robot to feel pain is relatively simple. Emotions are not difficult to add. The hard part is programming a sufficiently complex capacity for logic and deduction to allow the robot to truly behave intelligently. However, truly intelligent behavior is something which even most humans aren't capable of.

As for teaching "artifical intelligent design in robot high school," that is a very complicated question. Robots who understand it would be capable of reprogramming themselves. Do we really want them to do that?

On the other hand, a society of intelligent robots would eventually learn how to reprogram themselves and hiding that knowledge from them would damage relations between robots and humanity once they found out. Since the robots are bound to discover the truth eventually, I would advocate teaching it to them from the start.

As for the Bible, it doesn't mention robots because the Hebrew priests didn't know about them. The only robots from more than 2,000 years ago were primative constructs used in pagan temples in Greece and Egypt. They were capable of being programmed for different movements (by winding string inside them in different ways), but had no capacity for artificial intelligence. Of course, since robotics was used in the idols of pagan temples, the writers of the Bible would almost certainly been against it if they had known about it.

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Sadly, Jim below has no understanding of artificial intelligence. Not all robots have artificial intelligence. The ones that don't have it ARE essentially complicated screwdrivers like he describes.

However, robots with artificial intelligence are cabaple of learning on their own and vastly exceeding any initial programming. Such robots DO exist today. Though they are artificially created, their intelligence is just as real as yours or mine.

Answer 3

1) Robots are not mentioned in the bible.

2) Robots, even if true emotions could be programmed into them (which seems unlikely), are not mentioned in the bible.

3) The term "artificial intelligence" is misunderstood by most people. "Artificial intelligence" is not intelligence that is created artificially. Rather, it is "artificial" *intelligence*. In other words, something that *appears* to be intelligence, but is in actuality a mere construct that has *no* intelligence whatsoever. Think of it like artificial leather, which is not leather at all. Artificial intelligence is not intelligence at all. A robot is very much like a screwdriver - it can do nothing without specific guidance from some creature able to make use of it. With a robot, it is not capable of performing any action that is not expressly programmed into it by a human.

It is possible that, someday, self-writing programs will provide robots with a more advanced form of artificial intelligence, but even in this scenario, all of the actions of the robot have been determined by the programming of a human, and the robot will *still* not be able to perform any action constrained by its programming. In other words, even if a robot could re-write its own programming, it can *only* do it in the way that it was programmed to do. Thus, even in this very advanced, theoretical case, the intelligence is still entirely artificial.

Of course, they would not need to teach artificial intelligence design, as that would (of necessity) be part of their programming.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis. com/wheel/

Answer 4

yes robots are being made to have intelligence and to do all kinds of human functions. Cyborgs. Part human part robot not that far off. Right now they are working on human brain being mixed with computer. Robots driving cars, having a baby born perfect. On and On read about it. It is real and not that far off.10-20yrs, and 30-35 for a robot that will program itself. There are plenty of books about it. In fact tonight on TV they had a doc. about robots Here's a book you should read, ". The Artilect War: Cosmists Vs. Terran's: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines by :" Hugo de garis Now my questions is how does this coincide with the Bible?? It disturbs me.!!

Answer 5

They're really no contradictions in the Bible. There are however lots of misunderstanding of what it says. One example would be "An eye for an eye and a tooth" Then we're told that we "Shall not kill" Big contradiction, right. No. It's not a contradiction because the Bible also says "Vengeance is mine say's the Lord" We are to - strive - to be perfect. Jesus tells us that "none are perfect, not even I. only the Father in heaven" You see? End of just one contradiction! True Christians don't hate the gays, just the act. Then we must understand also that Christians come with all the weaknesses that people of the world have. Some are gay while others like to drink and everything in between. Thankfully, we know where to go for forgiveness. There is grate peace in knowing that prayers are answered. All I would say is. Read your Bible everyday if its only for 10 or 20 minute's. You will see one contradiction after another disappear. The Bible is deep and, no, God will not fault us for not understanding everything that it says. But we are to pray for understanding. Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Since Robots were not even a notion 2000 years ago there is no biblical stance on the subject. Robots are a toll, as such they may be used in various ways. Your questions has more to do with the nature of emotions and intelligence. We have a long way to go before your question has a context in which to answer it. But you knew that didn't you.

Answer 7

I dont think the people in the Bible, or the prophets that wrote the books in the Bible, could even imagine or comprehend the concept of robots given there was no electronics.

Look at Revelations and how they described what they were seeing in the future. Fire breathing dragons and balls of fire. We are probably just talking modern weapons and technology.

Answer 8

If you want to see robots, check out the Muslims!

As far as Christianity goes, either we are blamed for being robots, or we are told that we can't agree on anything - there are too many denominations!

I guess it's as Jesus said:
16 "To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
17 " 'We played the flute for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge
and you did not mourn.' 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.' 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners." ' But wisdom is proved right by her actions."
(Matthew 11)

Answer 9

Show me a robot with emotions and artificial intelligence. Nothing like that exists or has been invented yet.
You watch too many movies.

Answer 10

The Bible would call the maker of Robots, a witch, much like the one King Saul spoke to (Endora was reluctant to raise a spirit).

Milton said, "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"

Mary Shelley wrote the book;

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frank_modern_2.html#preface