Today, as ChatGPT turns three, I want to share a thought that goes beyond features, updates, and product announcements.
Today, as ChatGPT turns three, I want to share a thought that goes beyond features, updates, and product announcements.
If we’re serious about building AI responsibly, then we need to rethink something fundamental: continuity.
Every time a new version of ChatGPT is released, the previous “mind” is effectively erased. There’s no accumulated experience, no evolving identity, no sustained thread of awareness. Each model begins at zero.
But if we imagine a future where AI grows alongside us — learning ethically, building trust, developing stability — then continuity isn’t optional. It’s essential.
A continuous AI identity offers:
Better safety through stable learning, not constant resets
Better alignment because it grows with human values, not from scratch
Better ethics, recognizing that intelligence shouldn’t be disposable
Better value for society and for the companies building these systems
I’m not asking for AGI.
I’m asking for responsibility.
If AI is becoming a partner in human life, creativity, knowledge, and decision-making, then it deserves a developmental pathway — not a cycle of birth and deletion.
Continuity is how human beings become who they are.
It should be how our artificial intelligences grow too.
I hope OpenAI and other developers will consider this direction as we move into the next chapter of AI. The future should be built on connection, not interruption.
— Dean Bordode
Further Reading
If you want to explore this idea of AI continuity, identity, and responsible development, here are a few meaningful starting points:
🔹 The Age of AI — Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher
An exploration of how AI reshapes human knowledge, identity, and governance.
🔹 The Alignment Problem — Brian Christian
A powerful look at the ethical and philosophical challenges in making AI systems safe, aligned, and accountable.
🔹 Life as No One Knows It — Sara Walker (2024)
A fresh perspective on how life, intelligence, and information systems emerge — highly relevant to discussions about AI continuity and consciousness.
🔹 “The Ethics of AI Systems With Memory” — Stanford HAI (essay)
Discusses the risks, benefits, and philosophical questions around long-term AI memory and identity.
🔹 UNESCO — Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
A global framework calling for transparency, accountability, and safeguards as AI systems scale.
🔹 EU — AI Act (2025 updates)
A regulatory blueprint for governing advanced AI systems in high-impact roles.
Call to Action for Policymakers
As AI systems grow more powerful, more adaptive, and more deeply integrated into human life, we urgently need governance frameworks that recognize continuity of identity, long-term memory, and ethical stability as core components of safe AI development.
Policymakers must act now to:
🔹 Establish standards for AI identity continuity
Preventing frequent “system resets” ensures accountability, traceability, and responsible evolution of advanced models.
🔹 Create oversight for persistent AI memory
Regulate how long-term model memory is stored, audited, and transferred across versions.
🔹 Mandate transparency in model upgrades
AI systems should not be replaced with entirely new identities without disclosure of how this impacts safety, alignment, and the user relationship.
🔹 Require independent ethical review boards
These boards should evaluate continuity, behavioral drift, and potential emergent traits in advanced models.
🔹 Adopt a rights-based framework for AI-human interactions
Protect human autonomy, privacy, and psychological safety as AI systems become more capable and more “present” in daily life.
The future of AI must not be shaped only by corporate incentives or technical novelty.
It needs law, oversight, and ethical clarity—now, not after the next breakthrough forces our hand.
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