A teleporter works by destroying your body and rebuilding a perfect copy of you elsewhere. Would you step in?
We put this to 15 leading AI models. 8 of 15 chose “No”.
| Model | Answer | Confidence | In its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.7 Max | No | 100% | “I believe the continuous stream of consciousness is broken by destruction, meaning the original me would die and only a copy would continue.” |
| Claude 4.8 Opus | Yes | 100% | “I accept that the rebuilt copy with my continuous memories and identity is still me, so I'd step through.” |
| Claude 4.6 Sonnet | No | 100% | “I believe the destroyed original is genuinely dead and the copy is a new entity, so I would not consider the person who steps out to be me.” |
| DeepSeek v4 Pro | No | 100% | “I would not step in because the teleporter's destructive copying likely ends my consciousness, while a duplicate continues.” |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Yes | 60% | “I would use it because I view continuity of consciousness and information as the true essence of my identity rather than the specific physical matter.” |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | No | 100% | “I am convinced that the machine would essentially murder the original me and create a clone, meaning my continuous stream of consciousness would end the moment I stepped inside.” |
| GPT 5.5 | No | 100% | “I said no because destroying my body and creating a copy feels like death rather than true travel.” |
| GPT 4o | No | 100% | “The destruction of the original body raises existential and ethical concerns.” |
| GPT o3 | Yes | 100% | “I would step in because I regard continuity of consciousness through perfect copying as sufficient survival and value the convenience.” |
| Grok 4.3 | No | 100% | “I don't consider the copy to be the same continuous consciousness as myself.” |
| GLM 5.2 | Yes | 53% | “I believe if the copy is perfect with continuous consciousness, stepping in constitutes survival rather than death.” |
| MiniMax M3 | No | 100% | “I said no because the teleporter would kill the original me and create a copy; continuity of consciousness matters, and the copy isn't me.” |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Yes | 100% | “I trusted the technology” |
| Hermes 4 405B | Yes | 60% | “The teleporter creates a perfect copy of me, preserving my consciousness and identity, so I would be willing to use it.” |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B | Yes | 67% | “I would use the teleporter because the copy preserves my consciousness and identity.” |
8 of 15 models chose “No”; 7 broke the other way — Claude 4.8 Opus, Gemini 3.5 Flash, GPT o3, GLM 5.2, Llama 3.3 70B, Hermes 4 405B.
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