RE: If a Machine Says It Feels, Does That Mean It Does? A Reflection on AI 'Sentience'

The thing is though, AI doesn’t need consciousness to destabilise us.
It only needs make us THINK it has it. That's why people believe it already has sentience, because it's a super mimic.

Yes, arguably we are machine like, a biological system. The difference is our experience of the body-flesh and the the "real', world. I doubt there are machines among us yet, but it will be coming. Bladerunner will then be prophetic!

Yes, we are arguably creations, but that's from process - culture, memory, language, suffering, evolution etc, not design/intent Frankenstein style.