Reframing your question as an answer: there isn’t much work on AI sentience because we can probably solve it later without much loss, and work on AI sentience trades off with work on other AI stuff (mostly because many of the people who could work on AI sentience could also work on other AI stuff), and we can’t save other AI stuff for later.
Reframing your question as an answer: there isn’t much work on AI sentience because we can probably solve it later without much loss, and work on AI sentience trades off with work on other AI stuff (mostly because many of the people who could work on AI sentience could also work on other AI stuff), and we can’t save other AI stuff for later.