From the interviews I’ve seen, he’s doing this to draw attention to AI. He’s careful not to make strong truth statements, and focuses more on “encouraging dial

From the interviews I’ve seen, he’s doing this to draw attention to AI. He’s careful not to make strong truth statements, and focuses more on “encouraging dialogue.” Whether the machine is sentient isn’t the point. That some machine might become sentient, and we should talk about it now, is. He’s more post-truth activist than Don Quixote.