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An Artist at RPI Who Draws on the Future--Graduate student in electronic arts uses provocative acts to make people think about issues. "Last February, Boryana Rossa and her colleagues sent a decree of robot rights by email to the Pope's people at the Vatican. It should be considered a sin, the decree said, to kill an artificially created, sentient being (that is, a robot). Robots have the right to chose their own religion, it continued. An entity or creature created by humans must be considered equal to humans.