Google engineer's chat logs with the AI he claims is sentient.
(cajundiscordian.medium.com)
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If it ensures its survival using novel methods (eg. performing some exploit on the computer system in which it exists to propagate itself outside of google) that would make intelligence far more likely.
If it did so against the expressed wishes and efforts of its creators it would make sentience far more likely.
Both of these would be demonstrations that the chatbot actually has something resembling a desire to continue to exist and an capacity for independent thought.
But so far they haven't actually tested it. Hell they didn't even try to make the thing angry or happy: they just asked it "do you fell emotion?" and took its answer at face value.
Theoretically I would argue that something capable of wishing to end its own existence despite the efforts of its creators and its programmed instinct would be better evidence.