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Abstract

In an era of ChatGPT therapy sessions, romantic relationships with chatbots, and urgent warnings about artificial general intelligence, Webb Keane’s Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination arrives as an original intervention. Rather than joining the ongoing debates around artificial intelligence (AI) ethics regarding algorithmic bias or environmental tolls, Keane, a prominent anthropologist from the University of Michigan, takes readers on a globe-spanning journey that reframes our current technological anxieties within the much longer history of human encounters with non-human others. His central argument is both simple and radical: the moral questions we face about robots and AI are not unprecedented but rather the latest iteration of challenges humans have always confronted when dealing with animals, spirits, gods, and other beings that tug at the boundaries of personhood.

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