The general public will not care about these debates. If they have an individual humanoid AI that they've gone through many good times and bad and know each other throughout, they will be treated as a valued immediate member. Labels don't matter, just behaviour less of AI's but of humans. Shared experiences, values, and predictable behviour count for a lot (maybe everything).

An interesting shift is in how we routinely say "AI" and people hardly ever push back, vs saying "LLM" which how sounds pedantic in many contexts.