AI could cause 'social ruptures' between people who disagree on its sentience (opens in new tab)

There hasn't been any social ruptures over the possible sentience of whales hunted to near extinction, dolphins caught in fishing nets, cows, pigs. There will be no uproar over the feelings of chatbots.

>'social ruptures' between people who disagree on its sentience

You think?

There's already real bad ‘social ruptures’ between people who disagree on the sentience of the actual primates they are electing to leadership positions.

As can be seen, it's getting worse, not better.

The arguments could be over if people were to carefully define the words they're using, and any controversial words in those definitions. It would show either that they're talking about two different things, or as is more often the case here, that they truly don't know what they're talking about.

I don’t understand, why would the overnight emergence of a handful of groups claiming Minority Report-level foreknowledge be a cause for social awkwardness?