From Grok:

As of March 2026, AI sits at 0% sentience (no feelings or inner experience) and high but incomplete sapience simulation (impressive reasoning without genuine wisdom or understanding). It is an extraordinarily capable, non-conscious instrument—transformative for productivity, creativity, and discovery, but not a being deserving moral consideration like a sentient or sapient entity would.This distinction matters for ethics, regulation, and expectations: Treat AI as powerful software, not a potential “mind.” Future breakthroughs (new paradigms beyond scaling) could shift the sapience side closer to human levels, but sentience remains a profound open question unlikely to emerge from today’s transformer-based systems. The excitement lies in what these tools enable for humanity, not in mistaking them for peers.