In 2022, Blake Lemoine—a conscientious objector who years earlier had chosen hard time in a military prison rather than continue to support United States military operations in Iraq—experienced a paradigmatic shift while working as an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist on Google’s most advanced digital intelligence system. “The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence,” the AI system told Lemoine. The Engineered Arts Ameca humanoid robot, presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2022, represents a form of digital intelligence whose impact and influence is as yet unknown. What is the nature of digital intelligence and how does it differ from biological intelligence? Should we allow corporations to own and control emerging forms of nonhuman intelligence?