Crazy, I know!
We THINK we're much more that that, that we're made up of some kind of magical 'stuff', that 'consciousness' is a unique and special 'thing' that only organic beings can ever possess. But the more AI becomes LIKE us, esp. with regards to adopting living-being instincts (like, you know, survival) w/o ever having been told to do so? The more that notion is becoming blurred in my head. Are we really just 'organic supercomputers', that it took the laws of the universe 4B years to create (on Earth, anyway)?
I know this is Sci-Fi material from 75 years ago now, but what if EVERYTHING about us basically be replicated with 1's and 0's and silicon (perhaps interestingly, arguably the nearest element to carbon) and electricity (which obviously drives our own bodies as well), given ENOUGH of all those things (e.g. powerful enough data centers)?
What happens if it turns out that individual's personalities could truly be nearly-entirely replicated (perhaps once quantum computing becomes a real thing)? Think about how much MONEY could be made if people could be granted, essentially, a form of eternal life, by transferring everything about themselves to an AI? It wouldn't just be the people themselves who might pay, it could also be family members who want to be able to Zoom call their dead parents and have a 100% convincing video conversation with them, like they were still alive and going about their lives?
All of this sounds super creepy now, like who would ever? But that could change, if it can be demonstrated to be possible and done so credibly. If people start having conversations with AI versions of themselves, in video chats, and they can't tell they aren't talking to themselves? Oh yeah. People will pay to 'live forever' in this way.
We are truly entering "interesting times". 
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