Conscious Machines? - Reflections on the so-called "Artificial Intelligence" - Catholic Civilization | La Civiltà Cattolica

What makes us human? To this question, many people, including such notable figures as Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari[1] and OpenAI founder Sam Altman[2], have answered: “humor”, “imagination” and “emotions”. We believe that these answers are not only philosophically and theologically naive, but also ultimately inappropriate, because the defining characteristic of being human is consciousness: this is also widely regarded as the “holy grail”…