AI May Already Be Sentient

This is a speciation event

I read Stephen Witt’s op-ed in the New York Times with great interest. Like me, he began his investigations with a skeptical prior. “The more I moved from apocalyptic hypotheticals to concrete real-world findings, the more concerned I became.” The point of his piece was to raise the alarm over the risks posed by AI. “A destructive A.I., like a nuclear b…