Artificial Intelligence and Human Person: A Chinese Christian Perspective

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises some important ethical and social issues of public concern, including (1) whether and in what sense AI can be regarded as person; and (2) how human person may live in a technological society controlled through or by AI. This study attempts to address some of these questions by exploring the Christian understanding of person, the Confucian understanding of human person, and the recent multi-disciplinary studies of human person. It aims at articulating a multi-dimensional understanding of human person and to explore its implications for the understanding of human predicament in technological society and the prospect of humanity.