The Cartoon Doing Philosophy's Job on AI Sentience

The software engineer's post about Caine was not the first time a fictional AI has generated better applied philosophy than a policy brief, but it may be the most precise recent example . Her argument moved from capability to implication: a team that could build sentience at that level would have anticipated data loss. That is a design-constraint argument, not a feelings argument — and it is the kind of reasoning that is almost entirely absent from the public conversation about whether current AI systems might be conscious.