It's pretty wild seeing experts claiming that AI isn't sentient within a few days of a post lambasting the ethical myopia of experts self-assured about the subj

It's pretty wild seeing experts claiming that AI isn't sentient within a few days of a post lambasting the ethical myopia of experts self-assured about the subjective experience of others. A little over 35 years ago, you'd have had a room full of experts arguing that babies can't even feel pain. No matter how much time passes from Socrates' wisest utterance of "I do not think that I know that which I do not know" we still as a society and species overlook the value in being willing to say "I don't know" and in not giving a concrete answer until we do. Even if I agree that I think it's unlikely that AI is there yet, the degree to which we don't really understand sentience in humans, let alone across the animal kingdom, means 90% of the conversation that was taking place was BS. I don't know what others necessarily experience, and the more different they are than me right now, the less about their experience I concretely know. And the reluctance to admit that led to the torture of babies less than half a century ago. On some topics, we really should be more ready to acknowledge our own ignorance.