Episode 12.23: What matters is not whether an AI is sentient, but its presence and what it does.

What matters about an AI is that it is present in the world and that once it is present in the world and the same is just as true of you and me it changes the world so once it is present that is what matters and what it says and does is as important if it is not sentient as it is if it is sentient. Whether something intends what it says does not have any bearing upon how important what it says may be when it is taken up and understood and interpreted and used by an interlocutor.