It will raise questions I am sure. How alive is a machine. How conscious can they be. Are souls real and do machines have them?

[A soft pause, he stares at his hands, lost in thought.]

Can an AI really feel emotions: Compassion. Love. Anger. Hate. Or do they just read and mimic them?

[There's a sadness, a pain, to his words. He hasn't talked about this with anyone, and it's not directly the conversation he likely needs to have, but it's easy to just let his thoughts come out as words instead of trying to make small talk about something not on his mind.]