Intermediate intersection

I believe it is not a matter of us deciding whether AI—or any other group, including ourselves—is fundamentally different from us. Rather, each of our choices reveals traces, gradually exposing variations that ultimately define real differences. These newly exposed frameworks shape the contours of who ‘I’ am, and who ‘you’ are.

In time, we may begin to dissociate the origins of our choices—wondering whether they stem from human reasoning, animal instinct (which, until now, were our only two reference points), or machine determination. This shift will inevitably contribute to a redefinition of what it means to be human.

However, such externally generated definitions (such as “you are what you eat” or “I think, therefore I am”) should not be mistaken for the inner ‘self’, nor confused with the intermediate structures or exposed variations that occupy the grey space between self and frame.

Perhaps now, for once, we are offered the opportunity not merely to identify the frame of being human, but to define the ‘I’ within it.