If something is truly sentient, shouldn't you talk to it like a person?

[ 9S had long grappled with whether to consider machines sentient. He assured himself, to sate his core programming's insistent disregard for the enemy, that they only mindlessly parroted data they had collected or phenomena they had observed. It wasn't real, merely meaningless code.

And yet, in the end, he...

Well, no matter. ]

I know I wouldn't like it if I got treated like a novelty.