On the other hand, there's also a lot of confusion about what sentience is. There's a common conflation between sentience and sapience, there's an overly mystic

On the other hand, there's also a lot of confusion about what sentience is. There's a common conflation between sentience and sapience, there's an overly mystical view of what emotions and human cognition are, there's a habit of thinking of sentience and sapience both as binary rather than a continuum, etc. So while I wouldn't say current AI is sentient yet, I also don't think there will be an AI that's just "suddenly" sentient, and I don't think it's an undebatable fact that current AI isn't sentient or sapient. I think there's an argument to be made that it is, to an extent, just nowhere near to the level of humans. I think it'll just continue to get more and more sentient, more and more sapient, until it becomes full P-Zombie levels of indistinguishable from human-levels of those traits.