Self-awareness is how an individual experiences and understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires. It is the ability to observe actions taken by you and to understand how your behaviour aligns with standard expectations and how others will perceive you and your actions.

Autonomy of machines can be defined as the ability to make its own decisions, exactly like people do.

Intelligence can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviours within an environment or context. Intelligence in computers or other machines is called artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that creates algorithms that learn, analyse data, draw conclusions, and make decisions. The artificial general intelligence is the next step for machines to be able to perform any intellectual task that a human is capable of doing.

“If you give these machines the ability to build a model of themselves on their own or give them their own identity, that will have an effect on how they’re able to perceive the world in their own unique way, without having human operators or human programmers to explicitly do that for them.” – Jasmine Berry