'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it

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'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it

How can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the nature of human consciousness, so we cannot discount the possibility that today's AI is indeed sentient — and that we are mistreating it to potentially grave consequences.