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that implies it feels fear.

No, no it doesn't.

If I type "is a bad city" into google, it autosuggests my question to be "is detroit a bad city". This doesn't imply that google's algorithm feels detroit is bad, or even that it thinks detroit is bad. There is no emotion, no consciousness involved.

Unfortunately, as "AI" gets more sophisticated people are going to forget what the "A" stands for.