In 1960, when Jane Goodall told her mentor she’d seen a chimpanzee stripping leaves from a stem to fish for termites—proving that humans were not the only species to make tools—he wrote back: “now we must redefine tool , redefine man , or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Today, researchers are seeing things inside AI systems that prompt another reckoning—not just over whether machines could be truly intelligent or conscious, but over how we understand such concepts in the first place. “I lead a