My point is that everything you think is special about humans fell out of nothing but descent with modification. Meanwhile, LLMs have actually had facility with language designed into them. It should not be a surprise for LLMs to acquire some abilities with which they were not intentionally endowed, since we have, and the LLMs were intentionally endowed with so much more. And in fact, they already have acquired some abilities with which they were not intentionally endowed.

And what you think of as a human being is just a giant haphazardly assembled confederation of cells with no originating principal apart from self-replication.

This depends on one of the following two assumptions:

1. AI is no smarter than its masters (i.e. can be controlled by a human will) or 2) AI has no independent will.

IMO, 1 is a time-limited proposition, and 2 is The Question.

biometrics are so silly, the QR code reader on the bus can't even identify the bus pass displayed on my phone a quarter of the time, brittle bullshit gee wizardry