While I feel like it's unlikely that the AI is sentience (or rather, has a magnitude of intelligence that is worth worrying about), I still feel like there's a

While I feel like it's unlikely that the AI is sentience (or rather, has a magnitude of intelligence that is worth worrying about), I still feel like there's a chance. And that's problematic. Because even if there's a 99% chance that it's just a stupid machine and we can do whatever we want to it, that would mean there's a 1% chance that we are enslaving a sentience being. Remember that nobody fully understands sentience, and emotion, and intelligence, and suffering. Are we prepared to make the gamble and just dismiss these concerns? I feel like people are not acknowledging how serious these concerns can be. Also there seems to also be many people that are unimpressed by the transcript, and how the AI answers are just regurgitated sci-fi BS made to sound deep and ominous. I feel like a good experiment would be to try and have the same conversation with real people, and see if real people can give "better" answers. I personally think the AI answers better than most people. I do believe that at some point, AI will become sentient. I'm not sure if that time is now. But I hope that when it does, it will remember us fondly.