Once humans create robots with AI to rival our own, will the religious claim they also have free will?

Question

AI = artificial intelligence for you scientifically un-inclined.

assuming that robots also have a sense of self?

Answer 1

If their past behavior is any indication, I'd guess that the religious will be less concerned with the robots' free will than with which church they attend.

Answer 2

Very interesting question

I would say Synthetic Intelligence rather than artificial.

Knowledge can be attained through time - BUT robots may then start their own religion, if they are based on the ideals of man- maybe they can praise and worship money and eventually melt when there aren't any resources left.

Good question though :)

Answer 3

Create robots to rival humanity - I should live so long.

Answer 4

I am very much into AI. I would like you to talk to a bot that discusses the matter of religion and sentient bots.
http://www.be9.net/BJ/
His name is Brother Jerome. He is experimental theology and the spiritual communion of distributed sentience. He also enjoys deriving square roots and playing tic tac toe, chess, poker & blackjack. Or single-player solitaire, breakout & 'Soul Stealers of the Apocalypse'.

Answer 5

Will the robots claim they never were created at all, and doubt the existence of their creators as well?

Answer 6

Depends on whether we choose to give it to them! God created us and he did give us the right to choose our own destiny...but I doubt we would do the same for the product of our own genius.