AI Ethics Asks Whether It Makes Any Sense To Ask AI If AI Itself Is Sentient

AI Ethics and the question of whether to ask AI if it is sentient. If I ask you whether you are sentient, you will undoubtedly assert that you are. Allow me to double-check that assumption. Perhaps the question itself seems a bit silly. The chances are that in our daily lives, we would certainly expect fellow human beings to acknowledge that they are sentient. This could be a humorous-inducing query that is supposed to imply that the other person is maybe not paying attention or has fallen off the sentience wagon and gone mentally out to lunch momentarily, as it were. Imagine that you walk up to a rock that is quietly and unobtrusively sitting on a pile of rocks and upon getting close enough to ask, you go ahead and inquire as to whether the rock is sentient. Assuming that the rock is merely a rock, we abundantly anticipate that the erstwhile but seemingly oddish question will be answered with rather stony silence (pun!).