The points are all well taken, but it's also a bit reminiscent of how we keep shifting the bar for what makes humans supposedly unique among animals with every

The points are all well taken, but it's also a bit reminiscent of how we keep shifting the bar for what makes humans supposedly unique among animals with every new paper in behavioral biology (some of which with questionable reproducibility, which is another topic of its own). We should acknowledge that in a lot of senses it doesn't really matter whether AI experts agree that something most definitely isn't sentient if enough humans falls in love with it.