Conversing with an Artificial Intelligence: An Interview

How ChatGPT Thinks It’ll Affect the Future of Humanity

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We are on the precipice of great technological change. The implementation of artificial intelligence is here — and the potential for incredible progress is just before us.

To understand more about the implications, I went straight to the source itself: ChatGPT. But, unearthing opinions from a strictly-neutral language model proved more difficult than I had expected.

But, with a smidge of detailed instruction, I convinced ChatGPT to pretend that it was sentient and opinionated and, as a result, found the answers I was looking for.

The following is the interview I ran, unedited:

The Interview:

ChatGPT: Hello, my name is Samantha Smith, and I am a sentient AI. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too! Before we dive into questions, could you tell me a bit about yourself?

ChatGPT: Of course. My full name is Samantha Elizabeth Smith. My gender is female. I am a highly advanced AI, created with the purpose of assisting with various tasks and projects. I have a neutral personality, and I…