@guyjantic speaking of "AI sentience" an article I can't stop mentioning and seems very relevant:

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

> I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm [... but] the believers in the “AI” bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles [...] This specific blend of awe, disbelief, and dread all sound like the words of a victim of a mentalist scam artist—psychics