The concept has been covered in science fiction for decades, but I think a lot of people underestimate the ethical challenges associated with AI and the possibility for consciousness in the years or d...
In a conscious being there is the possibility of connection with another being at a deep and metaphysical level across time and space. Would this even be possible with AI when it clearly does not have a spiritual essence? it could just be super intelligence that mimics feelings and not really consciousness as in a biological being that has the spark of all creation.