Peter van der Putten on Robo Rabbi and robot that performs funeral rituals

Can a robot rekindle the waning interest in Buddhism in Japan? University lecturer Peter van der Putten researches the philosophical and social questions related to artificial intelligence. He also investigates whether creativity, emotions and other human characteristics can be taken over by computers and robots, and what it means when these characteristics are suddenly generated by robots.

Het Leidsch Dagblad interviewed him about what meaning robots can have within religion. Read the whole interview here. Read the whole interview here.

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