I don’t think we will fail to spot intelligence in AIs, since they have advocates, something that animals never had. But we have a problem in that “intelligence” seems to be a multidimensional continuum, so until we solve lots of different kinds of it, there will exist things that fit some form of it but really don’t deserve the unqualified name.
Oh ok, you have a completely new concern.
I don’t think we will fail to spot intelligence in AIs, since they have advocates, something that animals never had. But we have a problem in that “intelligence” seems to be a multidimensional continuum, so until we solve lots of different kinds of it, there will exist things that fit some form of it but really don’t deserve the unqualified name.