Original Reddit post

Many are debating whether AI is conscious. I think that’s a distraction from a more uncomfortable possibility: that we’re less than we think we are. An AI trained on everything you’ve written could generate new thoughts in your style, follow your habits of inference, and return to your same fixations. Not your memories but your pattern. If that pattern is convincing enough to fool the people who actually know you, then either the machine is more than we admit, or selfhood was always thinner than we wanted to believe. Which is it? submitted by /u/Philo167

Originally posted by u/Philo167 on r/ArtificialInteligence