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
Researchers say the way to help humanity escape the Turing Trap is to make sure that chatbots don’t communicate as if they were sentient.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
I don’t see why any sentient person would watch one of these things unless they had to, or enjoyed pain.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
It frightened him that he slept well at nights, that he was still calmed by the scent of orange leaves and the turquoise stillness of the sea, that he was sentient.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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