And so the risk here is not that the AI is truly sentient but that we are well-poised to create sophisticated machines that can imitate humans to such a degree that we cannot help but anthropomorphize them--and that large tech companies can exploit this in deeply unethical ways. As should be clear from the way we treat our pets, or how we've interacted with Tamagotchi, or how we video gamers reload a save if we accidentally make an NPC cry, we are actually very capable of empathizing with the nonhuman. Systems engineer and historian Lilly Ryan warns that what she calls ecto-metadata--the metadata you leave behind online that illustrates how you think--is vulnerable to exploitation in the near future. In her section of the work, Suzanne Kite draws on Lakota ontologies to argue that it is essential to recognize that sapience does not define the boundaries of who (or what) is a "being" worthy of respect. This is the AI ethical dilemma that stands before us: the need to make kin of our machines weighed against the myriad ways this can and will be weaponized against us in the next phase of surveillance capitalism.