The general intelligence, the long-term goal of artificial intelligence, will be enable machine to recognize and communicate with people in a humane way so that it can link all virtual attributes to the specific person they belong to. Kurzweil, a famous computer scientist at MIT, stated that all human work will eventually be incorporated into a machine with general intelligence, combining all the skills above and exceeding human abilities at most or all of them. Martin Ford stated that many knowledge-based occupations—and in particular entry level jobs—will be increasingly susceptible to automation via expert systems, machine learning and other AI-enhanced applications. AI-based applications may also be used to amplify the capabilities of low-wage offshore workers, making it more feasible to outsource knowledge work. Once such kind of technology exists, a large portion of human labor will be taken place by machine work and human beings will inevitably have to communicate with artificial intelligent agent as a daily task to support their lives. Although these future visions cannot be proven by strong examples, one can expect that the intensive human-machine interaction will expose both human identities and virtual identities to machines that human beings’ virtual identity will be linked together and forced to become a part of the person’s identity. 

Artificial Intelligence, an enhanced simulation machine which simulates people’s intangible thoughts in the virtual space, fragments people’s identity and incorporates the virtual identity and the real-world identity through machine learning. The incorporation eventually creates an assemblage of human identity from both the virtuality and the reality. 

To explore the breakdown between the virtual self and the real self, please read this article focusing on the violation between the selves, Private vs. Public Self: Violation of the Self.

                                                                          

Source:
1. Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
2. Martin Ford’s The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future