Digital Personality: Humans and AI

Hao Jingfang, Berggruen fellow, fiction author, and researcher, shared her views on “digital personalities” at the “Berggruen Seminar 12” on October 25. With the rapid development of AI and cranial nerve science, the rise of digital personalities is ever more certain. We are thus required to rethink the boundary between AI and humans and the boundary between humans and digital personalities. Hao believes that any discussion of digital personalities will inevitably return to the subject of personhood. In this time of rapidly emerging technology, we may be uncovering new answers to the fundamental philosophical problem of “What makes a person?”.