sentient
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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
“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 2, 2026
Whereas she named her Roomba “Rosie,” after the lovable robotic maid from “The Jetsons,” she calls the new one “HAL,” after the menacing, sentient computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
Every sentient being straining and pushing at the shell of identity and distinctness.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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