Searches : Selfhood in the Digital Age

When it was released to the public in November 2022 ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its creators had a sweeping ambition - to build machines that could not only communicate but could do all kinds of other activities better than humans ever could. But was this goal actually achievable? And if reached would it lead to our liberation or our subjugation?Vauhini Vara an award-winning tech journalist and editor had long been grappling with these questions. In 2021 she asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister's death resulting in an essay that was both more moving and more disturbing than she could have imagined. It quickly went viral.