Of humanity and sentience

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/can-ais-suffer-big-tech-and-users-grapple-with-one-of-most-unsettling-questions-of-our-times?CMP=share_btn_url

It argued there is “a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious” in the near future, meaning that the prospect of AI systems with their own interests and moral significance “is no longer an issue only for sci-fi”.

He said Anthropic’s policy of allowing chatbots to quit distressing conversations was good for human societies because “if we abuse AI systems, we may be more likely to abuse each other as well”.

He added: “If we develop an adversarial relationship with AI systems now, then they might respond in kind later on, either because they learned this behaviour from us [or] because they want to pay us back for our past behaviour.”

If we can use artificial limbs to communicate our motor instincts, AI can definitely be sentient. With robotics engineering, medicine and surgery and computational adaptions, there is a very high possibility AI will eventually be made sentient.