Smith & Boyd (1991) criteria are irrelevant across the vast majority of the space of possible agents.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Contingent properties like composition, origin, or similarity to human brains should not define ethical consideration for novel agents.claim0.805
  Ethics must be based on empirically-determined cognitive properties (goals, preferences, concerns) rather than parochial markers.
• Simplistic criteria like provenance (factory or evolution) and anatomy (homology to humans) were never appropriate; they were heuristics suitable only for past limitations.claim0.796
  Rejection of traditional provenance/anatomy criteria.
• Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.claim0.791
  Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
• Single agents can generalize better to unseen tasks because they are not constrained by predefined heuristic-based workflows.claim0.787
  Architectural belief motivating single-agent design choice; suggests flexibility provides better out-of-distribution performance.
• Verbal reports, homology of structure or materials, phylogenetic provenance are all insufficient to make dependable conclusions across the space of possible agents.claim0.785
  Summary assertion that traditional evidence fails for novel agents.
• The simple fact that intelligent agents are collectives and do not continue unchanged fulfills a necessary requirement for an open-ended evolution of intelligence.claim0.775
  Connects collective intelligence to evolutionary potential.
• Quantitative criteria like those of Crump et al. are a good example of the kind of framework we need: explicitly laying out conditions in a way that reveals their value and limitations.claim0.775
  Praise for the target framework's transparency.
• If behaviour is the window to sentience, evaluation criteria must focus on observable response patterns without reference to the means by which they are produced.quote0.774
  Key prescriptive statement supporting the system-agnostic approach.