Yeah, there might be other information that combines with ‘I looked into its eyes’ to yield high confidence in the animal case and not in the AI case.
I would also add, though, that ‘I share an evolutionary history with other organisms’ isn’t a strong enough consideration on its own to get to 90+%.
‘It wasn’t trained to have a self-model’ might be the kind of thing that can justifiably inspire extreme confidence, depending on why you think that’s important / what your model of sentience is, and how you know that model’s true.
Yeah, there might be other information that combines with ‘I looked into its eyes’ to yield high confidence in the animal case and not in the AI case.
I would also add, though, that ‘I share an evolutionary history with other organisms’ isn’t a strong enough consideration on its own to get to 90+%.
‘It wasn’t trained to have a self-model’ might be the kind of thing that can justifiably inspire extreme confidence, depending on why you think that’s important / what your model of sentience is, and how you know that model’s true.