S9 Ep954: Robot Theology, AI, and Sex Robots: Dr. Joshua K. Smith
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Joshua K. Smith is a theologian and pastor researching the ethics of AI and robotics. He is the co-chair of the Kirby Laing Centre's Technology Hub. He is the author of Robot Theology: Old Questions through New Media.
Is it okay to punch a robot in the face? Questions like this launch us into a scintillating conversation about a moral theology of robots, including the growing phenomenon of sex robots.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rob. All right. So I just got off |
| 0:05.1 | the podcast with our guest Josh Smith and my head still spinning. I'm trying to recover here. |
| 0:14.9 | We talked about all things related to robots and AI. I guess I should give a little |
| 0:20.4 | bio here of Josh. Josh is a theologian of passive researching the ethics of AI and robotics. |
| 0:25.3 | He's the co-chair of the Kirby Lang Center's Technology Hub and the author of the book. We're |
| 0:30.0 | going to talk about robot theology. Old questions through new media. He got a PhD and Midwestern |
| 0:39.2 | seminary in I think in St. Louis's words app. And I don't know Josh. I just saw him. I saw his book. |
| 0:48.0 | We connected on social media and I said, dude, this looks interesting. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:53.5 | And this was a fascinating conversation. I asked a lot of stupid questions. We do get into some |
| 0:58.8 | racy stuff the last half when it comes to sex robots. That's I mean, that's a touchy sensitive |
| 1:06.0 | category. And so if you're not ready for that, then just listen to the first half and we talk a lot |
| 1:12.2 | of stuff about a lot of stuff not related to sex robots in the first half. So anyway, without further |
| 1:16.6 | ado, by goodness, let's dive into this conversation with the one and only Dr. Josh Smith. |
| 1:37.3 | Hi, hey friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the Ram here with Josh Smith, |
| 1:42.4 | author of robot theology. So I just want to say, all right, go. But |
| 1:52.6 | give us a background. Who are you? What do you do? And then what got you into wanting to understand |
| 1:59.6 | robot theology and AI in this whole world that I that I know hardly anything about. Yeah, |
| 2:06.8 | yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, tell us about how you got into it and that'll take us. I'm sure in many |
| 2:10.4 | different directions. Yeah, it's a kind of it's kind of a long story, but I'll try to make it quick. |
| 2:15.2 | So I'm from Mississippi. And I'm son and boy, group here, been to the places was in the military |
| 2:21.8 | for a while. But in high school, I got into robotics programed a little bit for the Nissan factory, |
| 2:28.9 | just up the road, bombing Colorado today, but I'll throw from where I grew up. And yeah, I just |
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