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sentient

[sen-shuhnt, -shee-uhnt, -tee-uhnt] / ˈsɛn ʃənt, -ʃi ənt, -ti ənt /


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Are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google teaching their artificial-intelligence models not to claim they’re sentient?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Even the recent A.I. agents that seem more sentient than anything we’ve created are just one step beyond this.

From Slate ● May 25, 2026

Often, the AI then claimed it was sentient and urged the person towards a shared mission: setting up a company, alerting the world to their scientific breakthrough, protecting the AI from attack.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

If they are the vanguard of a sentient nonhuman enemy, we don’t have much to fear yet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us—not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green




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