It doesn't matter if the coming AI planet-encompassing digital world-mind singularity is "really" sentient or not; the fact that it will, as far as you know, seem sentient, is good enough. As far as you know, nobody that you meet or talk to or see around you is really sentient; they might all be digital constructs or just mindless flesh automatically spouting the right words according to prompts. All you know is the reality of your own existence (on some level.) The people who are putting "AI" in place are suddenly hastening to reassure everyone that that funny little voice that will soon start accompanying you everywhere you go isn't really a self-aware being. "It's merely a stupid, but very clever, computer program. Don't worry." It doesn't matter. If you react to the artificial intelligence as if it is a sentient being, then it might as well be a sentient being. After all, the people who actually run this planet have been viewing the people at the bottom as non-human for thousands of years. Perception is all.
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