There's no real room for this particular "LLMs aren't really conscious" gesture, not in this situation. These systems are being used to perform actions. People across the world are running executable software connected (whether through MCP or something else) to whole other swiss army knives of executable software, and that software is controlled by the LLM's output tokens (no matter how much or little "mind" behind the tokens), so the tokens cause actions to be performed.

Sometimes those actions are "e-mail a customer back", other times they are "submit a new pull request on some github project" and "file a new Jira ticket." Other times the action might be "blackmail an engineer."

Not saying it's time to freak out over it (or that it's not time to do so). It's just weird to see people go "don't worry, token generators are not experiencing subjectivity or qualia or real thought when they make insane tokens", but then the tokens that come out of those token generators are hooked up to executable programs that do things in non-sandboxed environments.