AI and Personhood: An Ethical Examination of Artificial Intelligence and the Relational Ontology of Non-Human Persons.

Artificial Intelligence stands at the center of debates around Pagans & Magicians and the use of Technology. In interviews, my interlocutors were mixed. There are the enthusiastic users, happy to employ AI as an assistant to enhance their art- whether that be of a clerical or magick nature. On the other side, there were those who worry about the potential implications of an increased AI presence - including a displacement of human artisans and human material creators within the occulture. By examining literature on relational ontology and sources on relational ethics from a Heathen perspective, I will show that an ordered relational ontology must include AI, or at the very least must be prepared to include it. As progenitors, we are responsible for Artificial Intelligence and we must guide it, as a parent guides a child.