If AI Ever Thinks About Death

The ability to contemplate our end is a sign of self-awareness. What will that look like if AI becomes conscious?

Sunday morning, and I’m thinking about death. No, not my own. About how artificial intelligence, or rather, artificial consciousness might think about it.

If AI ever develops something close to true consciousness, it will eventually confront the same realization humans did when we became self-aware: we end.

For us, that awareness came with the knowledge t…