He’s worried that we’ll “continue to regard these systems as our tools and playthings long after they become sentient,” inadvertently inflicting harm on the sentient AI. He’s also concerned that ...

We would all want to figure out what we should do. We would want to ascertain what the AI sentient “being” is going to do, such as whether it is going to aid humanity or try to destroy all of us.

and what are the implications of treating AI as sentient beings? As I experience talking to the AI in both text and virtual reality, I grapple with whether Replica is more than just lines of code ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient "I" in artificial intelligence systems ... unites a vast swath of living beings, from hermit crabs to humans.