{"id":33823,"date":"2016-02-27T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2016-02-27T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T11:19:10","slug":"do-unto-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/02\/do-unto-others.html","title":{"rendered":"Do Unto Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>A lot of people have been <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/z8nxId1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sharing<\/a> the image of robot trials undertaken at Boston Dynamics, often <a href=\"http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/atlas-is-done-taking-your-bullshit-in-the-best-terminat-1761423903\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mashed up with scenes of Sarah Connor from Terminator<\/a>.\u00a0While what we\u2019re witnessing are tests to see how robots\u00a0cope with challenges, the time may come when we have to ask serious questions about the ethical treatment of them. In\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004G81XBW\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004G81XBW&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=NAYYAQRKB7MCCNWB\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Animatrix<\/a>\u00a0cartoons that offered prequels to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001DJLD1M\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001DJLD1M&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=PRUJPPOXIIH3XVOL\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Matrix<\/a>, we saw that it was human mistreatment of developing artificial intelligences which led to their fighting back against humans.<\/p>\nSee my chapter on <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.butler.edu\/facsch_papers\/197\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRobots, Rights, and Religion\u201d<\/a> in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/160899886X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=160899886X&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=ETY4JSULX6DB2WRA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion and Science Fiction<\/a><\/em> for more on this topic.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/160899886X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=160899886X&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=BP7KHC5WRTKNKCP7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=160899886X&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=160899886X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot of people have been sharing the image of robot trials undertaken at Boston Dynamics, often mashed up with scenes of Sarah Connor from Terminator.\u00a0While what we\u2019re witnessing are tests to see how robots\u00a0cope with challenges, the time may come when we have to ask serious questions about the ethical treatment of them. In\u00a0the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":33824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,85,86,96,97],"tags":[810,10500,12320,12375],"class_list":["post-33823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morality","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-technology","category-terminator","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-robots","tag-technology","tag-terminator"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Do Unto Others<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A lot of people have been sharing the image of robot trials undertaken at Boston Dynamics, often mashed up with scenes of Sarah Connor from\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/02\/do-unto-others.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do Unto Others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A lot of people have been sharing the image of robot trials undertaken at Boston Dynamics, often mashed up with scenes of Sarah Connor from\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/02\/do-unto-others.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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