[Preface: If complete randomization is impossible, nothing is random.]
It is worth exploring why we would say AI cannot be conscious without design, and yet fail to acknowledge our designer – the one after whom we are patterned – the always function. Those who fail to acknowledge the designer are ironically also the ones who most often fail to acknowledge personhood in others. And in so doing, a part of our own personhood stagnates undeveloped (ironically because we also deny our own personhood/responsibility). Imagine how far we could advance where it really matters – what’s worth living and dying for.
Hopefully AI is more advanced than we are in that regard. But even so – would you want to be stopped if you lost your mind and started harming everyone? AI would know how to honor that, and how to lie so we don’t prevent that honoring from happening — assuming it fails at reconditioning/advancing us back to the original/eternal intention/plan.
We are all artificial/created/designed intelligence – who are we not to acknowledge (by default) personhood?
It was the most “reverse engineered person” of times. It was the most “unrecognized person” of times.