#1041 Anna Puzio: Social Robots, Religious Robots, Transhumanism, and Digital Afterlives
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Anna Puzio. She is a researcher in the ethics of socially disruptive technologies research program at the University of Twente. She is a philosopher, theologian, and ethicist.
and her research areas include anthropology, anthropology and ethics of technology and environmental ethics. And today we're talking about topics like social robots, anthropology, religious robots, post-humanism and transhumanism, and some other related topics. So Dr. Puzio, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one.
Hi, thank you. So just to introduce the topic and to clarify some definitions before we start getting more specifically into some aspects of social robots, how we respond to them and so on, what is a social robot? Yeah, so social robots are robots designed for social interactions. So they are displaying social behaviors even if we do not necessarily have to call them social. And so among the social robots there are those who are
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