The scary question for me isn't whether AI is conscious ... it's whether we were ever as deep as we assume
Summary
The article argues that the debate over AI consciousness distracts from a more unsettling possibility: human selfhood may be thinner than assumed, as AI trained on personal writing can replicate patterns convincingly enough to fool acquaintances.
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