If I have an AI Chip in my Brain...

 

If I have an AI embedded in a computer chip, in my brain, and it’s internet-connected, is it cheating to use that during a test?

What if this chip can chat with my friends or with a much larger internet-based AI? What if it has memory capacity and the whole textbook is uploaded and searchable in its memory store? Is it cheating then?

And what if I have lived a long time, getting first a knee replacement, then a leg, then an arm, until eventually, only my brain is still organic? (except for the AI chip) Am I still a human? I want to say “Yes” since I see my brain and mind as “Me”.

But now it gets harder.

Now suppose that I have gotten much older, and I have gotten nanotech implants that mirror each organic neuron, with each synthetic neuron learning what is normal for that organic neuron, and then mimicking that work, when the organic neuron dies. Like a neural prosthetic. If this were just cerebellum cells, for walking and balance, it seems like any other prosthetic, like a very fancy cane or walker.

But imagine that this is also the frontal lob and white matter cells, which are very much “Me”. And imagine that after years of this, many of my organic neurons have died, and much of my brain functions are now done by these prosthetic nanobots.

And someday, maybe the last organic neuron dies, and I am 100% synthetic. I act the same and feel the same, but I’m not organic at all.

Am I a robot or a human? Does it matter?

Do I have rights, or will they divide my wealth among my heirs, because I am now finally, legally, dead?