We don't know how sentient LLMs are. Nobody understands how they work. There's nothing concrete we can point to that guarantees LLMs don't start
"acting on their own".
There's a great article by author Ted Chiang discussing this in depth [1].
[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial...
I'm open to the dualist's position on consciousness if that's what you're really asking. Though that's more because I find the physicalist's position so untenable [1] that I'm forced to consider alternatives.
[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/#NumbAbst
By this logic, there’s no point in wondering if you are sentient, because your brain runs on the same biological substrate as a fruit fly.
Not a convincing argument
2. "of sufficient complexity" is doing a lot of work here. Read Ted Chiang's article. I agree with him: there's nothing that prevents software from being conscious in principle. But there is also no reason to suspect that LLMs in particular are conscious based on very reasonable assumptions about what that would look like.
Just like the Terminator movie /s