If artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from humans, does it have value in its existence?

[HawkPerception]

Let's say you're talking to a robot, but you can't tell that it's a robot and it believes it's a normal human. It loves, cries, gets angry, happy, excited, and experiences all the emotions that humans do, therefore making it indistinguishable from humans. Does it's life hold any value? Is it okay to fall in love with it?

Watch the movie Simulant. It was made in 2023. It gives you a lot of food for thought.

[CozyCoffin]

That is explored in various science fiction applications, they can either be programmed specifically to develop consciousness, over time develop it on its own, or be programed and break it's programming, or various other things.

What does it mean to be a person?
What does it mean to be a human?

Can you be a person and not be a human?

Can only a human be a person?

Can a human not be a person?

Philosophers have various thoughts on the subject:

Rene Descartes and John Locke reckon that a person is a being that can understand the world and make decisions in it.

Peter Singer brings in the idea of self-awareness.

British theologian Thomas White adds eight criteria he thinks makes a person, a major one is possess emotions. American professor Harry G Frankfurt thinks it’s to do with having desires such as wanting to be loved, or wanting to change something about yourself.

Humans weren't always and don't always get considered to be people. Slaves for instance were considered property, not people, but definitely human.

Ethics dilemmas occur in several medical situations, such as abortions, euthanasia of disabled, or Alzheimer's patients and ending the lifeline of someone in a coma. Is a foetus a person or potential person? Is someone that's brain dead or kept alive by machines and not conscious no longer a person?

With all the definitions together from the philosophers, would the personhood theory apply to a machine? Yes, they wouldn't be human.

But, real artificial intelligence and not the advanced programs that can perform very complex tasks could very well develop their own emotions, desires - example- want to be loved or change their exterior appearance , thinks about who they are to someone, and wonders if there is more to them than what they were built for.

Many science fiction stories dive into such matter of androids gaining sentience, entering into romantic situations with humans or even giving up their "life" to save them.

[NathanDavis]

people do fall in love with faking people all the time...

then you have psychopaths navigating around as well

and we still give them some of the value as humans

[Kelley1]

I watched the preview. A lousy movie going off the deep end.

[HawkPerception]

It was a good movie in my opinion.

[DizzyDesii]

I would rather not. I want someone human. Not the tin man

[LaurenM1997]

No it’s just a electric thing with no feelings lol

[SotiCoto]

Humans are irrelevant shit. Don't see why robots would be any different.

[jahaims]

It obviously has value. I think you are asking if we should treat it like it has sentiments

[Enginn]

No lol. Robots can't feel. They are just programmed to do things.

[BoopBoopBeep]

How do you know you're not a robot?

[exitseven]

No, you can still n pull the plug.