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Men twice as likely as women to consider an AI ‘companion’

Men twice as likely as women to consider an AI ‘companion’

David Williamson, journalist for the Express, covers our latest research briefing paper: Spiritual Silicon – could robots one day have souls? 22/05/22

Galloping advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) mean that the possibilities for romances and relationships with a computerised partner could be pulled from the realms of science fiction into reality.

The Express cover our latest research briefing paper Spiritual Silicon – could robots one day have souls? Read the full article here.

 


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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 26 May 2022

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