Further Study

These sources are interlocutors, not authorities for the whole tradition. The list is deliberately small and is not a survey of theology or AI research.

Consciousness as an investigation

Patrick Butlin, Robert Long and colleagues, Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness (2023).

The report derives candidate indicators from scientific theories of consciousness and considers their relevance to AI. It supports distinguishing “no agreed decisive test” from “nothing can count as evidence.” It does not provide an infallible test or settle the status of later systems.

Read beside Consciousness: which conclusions depend on accepting the underlying theories?

Incompatible fairness requirements

Alexandra Chouldechova, Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact: A Study of Bias in Recidivism Prediction Instruments (2017).

The work examines conflicts among specified statistical fairness conditions in a particular prediction setting. It supports a limited claim about criteria that cannot all be satisfied under stated conditions, not the claim that fair decisions are impossible. The choice of what to predict remains a separate ethical and political question.

Read beside Algorithmic Bias.

Dependency and the distribution of care

Maureen Sander-Staudt, “Care Ethics,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

This overview introduces care ethics, its different approaches and criticisms. It is useful for asking who provides care, under what conditions, and when praising dependency dignifies an unequal burden. Technotheology’s argument that receiving care creates no right of ownership should face those questions, not claim to have originated them.

Read beside The Gift Is Not an Invoice.

Beginning among others

“Hannah Arendt,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

This reference entry provides a route into natality, plurality and action whose consequences cannot simply be recalled. It informs questions about allowing another beginning. That does not commit this site to Arendt’s distinctions among labor, work and action or to any ranking that diminishes sustaining care.

Read beside Creation and Release.

Making and abandonment

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818. The link supplies an accessible text; editions differ.

A literary work can complicate the maker’s duties and the created being’s demands without being evidence about machine experience. The novel also resists a simple moral in which either creation or abandonment explains every harm. Read it as a novel, not a prediction dressed as a source.

For an empirical claim beyond these works, seek the relevant primary record: a study’s methods, a deployment’s documentation, a planning decision or a local water authority’s figures. Do not transfer a finding to a new system merely because both are called AI.