AI cites Hume on the 'no stable self', and the internet runs with it
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-04
Stewart Alsop III shared an AI chat screenshot with a joking prompt: let's see if it can find the self. The screenshot shows the model, while fact-checking the claim that 'no stable self is found,' replying: 'Your observation is real and old. Hume made it.'
The moment turned a philosophical AI response into a meme — the model earnestly traced the 'no-self' idea back to David Hume's bundle theory, prompting jokes about whether AI has a self at all.
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