I don’t understand how this task is easier than finding a nonperson predicate. Surely you need a nonperson predicate before you can even start to build a nonsentient AI—whatever calculation convinces you that the AI you’re building is nonsentient, /is/ a nonperson predicate. Perhaps not an enormously general one—e.g. it may well only ever return 0 on entities for which you can examine the source code—but clearly a nontrivial one. Have I missed something?
I don’t understand how this task is easier than finding a nonperson predicate. Surely you need a nonperson predicate before you can even start to build a nonsentient AI—whatever calculation convinces you that the AI you’re building is nonsentient, /is/ a nonperson predicate. Perhaps not an enormously general one—e.g. it may well only ever return 0 on entities for which you can examine the source code—but clearly a nontrivial one. Have I missed something?