Comment by Ray Kurzweil

Author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist
So some of these machines will be humanlike, more humanlike than animals. [...] Ultimately, they’ll convince people that they are conscious.
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AI Verified The cited Kurzweil Library page, titled "Ray Kurzweil Q&A with Darwin Magazine" and dated December 3, 2001, attributes the interview response to Ray Kurzweil and contains the same opening sentence and ending sentence as your quote, with one intervening sentence omitted. That makes the submitted version a faithful ellipsis rather than a material alteration, so the quote is authentic and correctly attributed. ([thekurzweillibrary.com](https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/ray-kurzweil-qa-with-darwin-magazine)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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