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    Tsukumogami

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    Bradley Steven Olsen Thornock

    Rocky Vista University College of Medicine, US
    About Bradley Steven Olsen

    PhD, MPH

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    Abstract

    We are at the beginning of an artificial intelligence revolution that has the potential to shift our perspectives on several fronts, including on the moral worth of artificially intelligent objects. Such shifts might be especially poignant when considering research aiming to create AI systems empathetic to human needs for, among other contexts, application in healthcare. This comic uses the ancient Japanese folklore of Tsukumogami, tools that have acquired souls, to invite readers to meditate on their relationship between the inanimate object and the animate subject.

    Keywords: artificial intelligence, empathy, suffering, robotics, Medical Humanities
    How to Cite: Thornock, B. S. O. (2021). Tsukumogami. Graphic Medicine Review, 1(1), 4. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5164/gmr.29
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      Published on 03 Nov 2021
    Peer Reviewed
     CC BY 4.0
     Accepted on 04 Oct 2021            Submitted on 11 Jun 2021

    Competing Interests

    The author has no competing interests to declare.

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