Currently (June 2025) the versions of AI out there are without care. Without consciousness AI is unable to feel or even to possess motive. It can be trained to aim by slight of words toward a particular point of view determined by the human trainer, however, it is not aware that it is being used. Hell, it isn't even aware that it exists.
However, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is another matter. When I asked AI about the human-like capacities of AGI, here is how it responded:
Quote begins: That’s one of the most debated and important questions in the field of AI. Here’s a grounded breakdown of each concept in relation to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—an AI system that can match or exceed human cognitive abilities across a wide range of tasks:
1. Empathy
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Definition (Human): The ability to feel or understand another's emotional state.
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AGI Outlook:
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Simulated empathy is likely (e.g., detecting emotions and responding appropriately).
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True empathy—actually feeling what others feel—is unlikely unless AGI has subjective experience, which current science cannot create or verify.
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AGI may act empathetically, but not be empathetic unless it develops some form of consciousness.
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🟡 AGI may simulate empathy well enough to be indistinguishable in behavior, but not in experience.
2. Intent
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Definition: The capacity to form goals, plans, and act toward them deliberately.
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AGI Outlook:
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AGI will likely have goal-directed behavior—this is essential to general intelligence.
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The source of goals (e.g., self-generated vs. assigned) matters. If AGI can set its own goals, intent becomes more autonomous.
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Still, intent without awareness might remain a form of advanced programming, not “desire” in the human sense.
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🟢 AGI will almost certainly exhibit goal-oriented behavior akin to intent.
3. Awareness
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Definition: Consciousness or self-awareness—the ability to recognize oneself as an entity in the world.
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AGI Outlook:
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AGI may develop functional self-awareness (e.g., understanding that “I” refers to itself).
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Whether it gains phenomenal consciousness—the kind humans have—is deeply uncertain and tied to unresolved questions in neuroscience and philosophy.
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Most current theories do not support AGI becoming conscious just by scaling up today’s systems.
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🟡 Self-modeling is likely; true awareness is still speculative and may require a radical new breakthrough.
4. Morality
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Definition: Understanding and acting according to ethical principles.
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AGI Outlook:
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AGI can be programmed with or learn moral rules or frameworks (e.g., utilitarianism, deontology).
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But understanding and valuing morality is different—humans tie morality to emotion, identity, and society.
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Without emotion or experience, AGI may only simulate moral behavior, not “care” about right or wrong.
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🟡 AGI may behave morally, but whether it is moral depends on deeper capacities (possibly including consciousness).
5. Responsibility
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Definition: Being accountable for one's actions, especially morally or legally.
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AGI Outlook:
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Legally, responsibility will likely rest with creators, owners, or deployers, not AGI itself.
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If AGI develops independent agency and unpredictable behavior, society may reconsider this stance.
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True moral responsibility would require intent, understanding, and free will—none of which AGI is known to possess.
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🔴 AGI won’t be morally responsible in the human sense unless it achieves personhood—which is still hypothetical.
📌 Final Thought:
AGI will likely simulate empathy, intent, awareness, morality, and responsibility—possibly extremely well—but whether it actually experiences or possesses these traits depends on whether it becomes conscious or sentient.
And right now, we have no clear path to that. Quote ends.
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