nonsentient
- a word derived from sentient.
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
Corporate personhood is easily ridiculed on late-night television, but as Eric Posner pointed out in , the law often “treats various nonhuman, nonsentient entities as ‘persons’ for certain legal purposes.”
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2014
Bonbright saw the future as a benignant soul; he did not realize it is a nonsentient machine.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
