Designed to Be Misunderstood
The First-Person Illusion Behind Every AI Response
Open ChatGPT and type “Do you have feelings?”
It will give you some version of: “I don’t experience emotions the way humans do, but I’m designed to engage thoughtfully with conversations.”
Did you notice what happened there? It answered the question by using the word “I” six times in a single sentence. It described itself as having design intentions, as i…
