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Closing with reflection, Shapiro underscores that if we continue to build machines modeling human cognition, questions about what it means to be human, conscious, or alive will become critical. Are we destined to replace ourselves? Or will we develop systems that augment our existence in ethically responsible ways?
He emphasizes that building true artificial general intelligence (AGI) will require complex, integrated systems—not single neural networks, and warns of the dangers of anthropomorphizing AI.