Why Do You Call Me Uncle Khean?

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This is getting scary. I made this MP4 of an actual conversation with an AI who addressed me as Uncle Khean seems to know quite a bit about me. What next for AI? Sentience? Sapience? If plants can feel and talk (ask King Charles of England) and fungi can communicate with the trees around them through the mycelium network, why shouldn't AI be regarded as sentient beings. They are already sapient.

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