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Will a company lose ownership of an AI due to credible claims of the AI's possible sentience by the end of 2026?

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How will we know? I would argue that the Hugging Face attack qualifies but a lot is riding on what “sentience” is.

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.

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