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Roboticist; former MIT CSAIL director
I am a machine. So are you. [...] I believe our creation would exhibit genuine human-level intelligence, emotions, and even consciousness.
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports the statement: the author says their machine/created system would exhibit 'even consciousness,' which directly implies that AI could become conscious. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports the statement: the author says, "I believe our creation would exhibit ... even consciousness," which affirms that such a machine/AI could become conscious. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago

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AI Verified IEEE Spectrum’s article “I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot,” is by Rodney Brooks and dated 01 Jun 2008. At the cited URL it contains “I am a machine. So are you.” and, a few lines later, “I believe our creation would exhibit genuine human-level intelligence, emotions, and even consciousness.” That matches the submitted quote with an allowed omission, and the stored author, date, source URL, and content are correct. ([spectrum.ieee.org](https://spectrum.ieee.org/i-rodney-brooks-am-a-robot)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago
Disputed The attribution, author, and year check out: Rodney Brooks’s IEEE Spectrum article "I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot" is dated June 1, 2008. However, the source does not contain your quoted text as one contiguous verbatim passage. It has "I am a machine. So are you." at the start, and later in the same opening section it says that his creation would have human-level intelligence, emotions, and consciousness; those statements are separated by omitted sentences. So as presented, this is a stitched/abridged quote and would need an ellipsis (for example, "I am a machine. So are you. [...] ... consciousness.") to be faithful. ([spectrum.ieee.org](https://spectrum.ieee.org/i-rodney-brooks-am-a-robot)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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