one's own character and feelings.) • Consciousness is also called “self- awareness” for a reason. (‘’I want that item” is a very different statement from “I know I want that item.”) Conscious beings are aware of themselves, know about their internal states, and are able to predict feelings of others. • This type of AI will not only be able to understand and evoke emotions in those it interacts with, but also have emotions, needs, beliefs, and potentially desires of its own. And this is the type of AI that doomsayers of the technology are wary of. • Internal Self-Awareness • Machine internal self-awareness includes responses to physical events through interrupts. A relatively straightforward process allows a computer to know when its keyboard has been touched, or when its hard disk is full. Interrupts themselves date back to the 1950s and have a fascinating history that is well documented online. • External Self-Awareness • When you are willing to look at machine’s external sense of self, through the eyes of what matters to the machine, you can understand it at a far deeper (and truer) level. For example, any machine connected to the internet has a name called an IP address. This name appears everywhere. This is how a machine knows when it has done something. The widespread fear that AI will endanger humanity and take over the world is irrational. Here is why. • Autonomous or Artificial Intelligence systems can develop two ways: either as an extension of human thinking or as radically new thinking. Call the first "Humanoid Thinking" (or "Humanoid AI") and the second one "Alien Thinking" (or "Alien AI"). HUMANOID THINKING