{"id":217015,"date":"2025-07-02T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/will-ai-need-a-body-to-come-close-to-human-like-intelligence"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:10:09","slug":"will-ai-need-a-body-to-come-close-to-human-like-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/will-ai-need-a-body-to-come-close-to-human-like-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Will AI need a body to come close to human-like intelligence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-ai-need-a-body-to-come-close-to-human-like-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first robot I remember is Rosie from <i>The Jetsons<\/i>, soon followed by the urbane C-3PO and his faithful sidekick R2-D2 in <i>The Empire Strikes Back<\/i>. But my first disembodied AI was Joshua, the computer in <i>WarGames<\/i> who tried to start a nuclear war \u2013 until it learned about mutually assured destruction and chose to play chess instead.<\/p>\n<p>At age seven, this changed me. Could a machine understand ethics? Emotion? Humanity? Did artificial intelligence need a body? These fascinations deepened as the complexity of non-human intelligence did with characters like the android Bishop in <i>Aliens<\/i>, Data in <i>Star Trek: TNG<\/i>, and more recently with Samantha in <i>Her,<\/i> or Ava in Ex Machina.<\/p>\n<p>But these aren\u2019t just speculative questions anymore. Roboticists today are wrestling with the question of whether artificial intelligence needs a body? And if so, what kind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first robot I remember is Rosie from The Jetsons, soon followed by the urbane C-3PO and his faithful sidekick R2-D2 in The Empire Strikes Back. But my first disembodied AI was Joshua, the computer in WarGames who tried to start a nuclear war \u2013 until it learned about mutually assured destruction and chose to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}