diff --git a/internal/attribute/attribute.go b/internal/attribute/attribute.go
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+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package attribute
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+)
+
+func SliceValue[T bool | int64 | float64 | string](v []T) any {
+	var zero T
+	cp := reflect.New(reflect.ArrayOf(len(v), reflect.TypeOf(zero)))
+	copy(cp.Elem().Slice(0, len(v)).Interface().([]T), v)
+	return cp.Elem().Interface()
+}
+
+func AsSlice[T bool | int64 | float64 | string](v any) []T {
+	rv := reflect.ValueOf(v)
+	if rv.Type().Kind() != reflect.Array {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var zero T
+	correctLen := rv.Len()
+	correctType := reflect.ArrayOf(correctLen, reflect.TypeOf(zero))
+	cpy := reflect.New(correctType)
+	_ = reflect.Copy(cpy.Elem(), rv)
+	return cpy.Elem().Slice(0, correctLen).Interface().([]T)
+}