We may also become more vulnerable to being manipulated by AI chatbots because they will eventually know more about us than anyone else.Īs loneliness reaches epidemic levels, specially in developed countries, people may feel more comfortable sharing their feelings with a computer programme than with fellow humans. This could lead to humans treating AI chatbots on an equal footing with other humans, as depicted by the character played by Joaqin Phoenix in the 2014 movie Her. The human inclination to anthropomorphize is deeply ingrained, and this can further reinforce our tendency to attribute human traits to a chatbot. After all, when we watch movies, we experience emotions and develop liking and disliking for screen characters, even though we know it is all scripted. It may become difficult for humans to not get convinced by an AI entity of its real existence. An AI chatbot may not have real internal states of mind or subjective experiences like anger and happiness, but it can appear as having these and it can certainly try to convince humans and other AI chatbots that it is a real person. While there is merit in this line of thought, it does not give an entirely complete picture.

It has widely been held that AI can’t have subjective experiences of thought and emotions like humans, and therefore, in essence, it would always be different from us.

This would open a Pandora’s box and have a far reaching impact on our human psyche and society. On a philosophical level, we may need to confront the issue of what makes humans special and sets them apart from highly sophisticated computer programmes. This could potentially enable us to communicate with individuals posthumously, thereby creating a digital afterlife of sorts. Taking this a step further, some people are working on uploading human minds on a computer. There could also be multiple AI versions of my personality.

In fact it can be tweaked to make a better version of me, one who does not have bad days. It could become possible to create my chatbot replica, which would talk exactly like me. By 2029, we may have AI replicas of human beings which would be non-distinguishable from their real forms in conversations.

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