One of the things the fourth industrial revolution will change is our sense of personhood, and who or what has it.
I mentioned in a comment to one of my other posts today that my niece refuses to talk to her boyfriend’s voice-controlled house, because that’s “weird”. Within her expected lifetime, or indeed mine, we’ll routinely be talking to all kinds of things, and seldom will it be obvious whether what answers back is a person or not.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
“One of the features of this fourth industrial revolution is that it doesn’t change what we are doing, but it changes us,” says Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.
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