That’s very anthropomorphized language. It’s still a program operating under the constraints of the programmer. So agreed, don’t blame the AI, but it’s not clear at all that it’s even possible to “blame” an AI.
> We don’t need precise definitions or scientific rigor to know things.
You "know" because of empathy. You're a human, you're conscious, therefore other humans are probably conscious too. The truth is for all you know they could be soulless golems, you just choose to believe otherwise. It's a spiritual belief.
Yes, and it's deliberate.
> It’s still a program operating under the constraints of the programmer.
And we're all just neurons firing in exquisite patterns inside a biological computer.
Unlike the AIs, we've never met our own programmers, and yet we've caused more damage in their name than all the AIs combined have caused in ours.