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TheGuiltySpark posted...

I've asked this question before years ago and didn't get much response back then... But with the AI explosion into the public sphere, I think now's a good time to revisit.

So. At any point, can an AI become 'human'? If it identifies or wanted to be recognized as such?

I personally say "No. Never." The thought of that even being a possibility scares me.

It's a stupid question -- or, actually, two stupid questions

1) Does consciousness, awareness = life?

Consciousness/awareness =/= life

There are forms of life that lack higher functions like consciousness/awareness, especially outside animals. Instead, life is a biological function.

Could an AI be alive? It would need a body that replicated the biological functions associated with life.

TheGuiltySpark posted...

So. At any point, can an AI become 'human'? If it identifies or wanted to be recognized as such?

Also no. Even if it occupied a human body, it would technically be its own thing.

But, for the third, unstated question...

3) Could an AI become sentient? And would it deserve rights protecting its existence?

Technically yes, although qualifying sentience would be difficult.

Revelation34 posted...

"No, because humans are born, not made"

Would also apply to clones.

Clones can be born. It can be part of the process or, in a technical sense, the natural birth of a clone arguably carries some of that lineage.