: Re: What pronoun to use for a sentient, self aware AI? I have a sentient AI in a story. He sentience aspect is mostly an unexpected result and some characters in the story do not believe it.

DWKraus touched on this with their comment: if the AI is truly sentient and self-aware, it's probably capable of choosing a set of pronouns for itself. I see two ways you could then work that into the story: either the characters explicitly ask the AI for its pronouns, much as you might when talking to a non-binary human, or the characters unknowingly use the wrong pronoun (e.g. "it"), and the AI corrects them ("Actually, my pronouns are...").
As for what the AI's pronouns should actually be, I'd say that, given the AI is genderless, "it" or "they" would be your safest choices. "He" or "she" for a genderless AI may confuse readers, and neopronouns like "ze/zir" may not be taken seriously by a certain subset of readers. You can have the AI choose to go by whatever pronouns it likes, though; it's your character.

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