Example Sentences

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While the bill tackles real questions about liability and legal clarity as AI systems become more autonomous, it goes off the rails by declaring all AI nonsentient forever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

Certainly the ethical issue of nonsentient authorship is the most absorbing.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2023

Academic publishing may have to accommodate a future of AI-driven manuscripts, and the value of a human researcher’s publication records may change if something nonsentient can take credit for some of their work.

From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2022

The law also treats various nonhuman, nonsentient entities as “persons” for certain legal purposes.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2013

Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence